Brother Rabbit and Other Stories for Little Ones - Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton
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Brother Rabbit and Other Stories for Little Ones - Illustrated by Honor C. Appleton - Sara Cone Bryant
THE CAT AND THE PARROT
ONCE there was a Cat and a Parrot. And they had agreed to ask each other to dinner, turn and turn about: first the Cat should ask the Parrot, then the Parrot should invite the Cat, and so on. It was the Cat’s turn first.
Now the Cat was very mean. He provided nothing at all for dinner except a pint of milk, a little slice of fish, and a biscuit. The Parrot was too polite to complain, but he did not have a very good time.
When it was his turn to invite the Cat, he cooked a fine dinner. He had a roast of meat, a pot of tea, a basket of fruit, and, best of all, he baked a whole clothes-basketful of little cakes!—little, brown, crispy, spicy cakes! Oh, I should say as many as five hundred. And he put four hundred and ninety-eight of the cakes before the Cat, keeping only two for himself.
Well, the cat ate the roast, and drank the tea, and sucked the fruit, and then he began on the pile of cakes. He ate all the four hundred and ninety-eight cakes, and then he looked round and said:
I’m hungry; haven’t you anything to eat?
Why,
said the Parrot, here are my two cakes, if you want them?
The Cat ate up the two cakes, and then he licked his chops and said: I arp beginning to get an appetite; have you anything to eat?
Well, really,
said the Parrot, who was now rather angry, I don’t see anything more, unless you wish to eat me!
He thought the Cat would be ashamed when he heard that—but the Cat just looked at him and licked his chops again—and slip! slop! gobble! down his throat went the parrot!
Then the Cat started down the street. An old woman was standing by, and she had seen the whole thing, and she was shocked that the Cat should eat