Cats, Dogs and Horses

By Catherine Wilkinson

This is the original explanation why I had written up in my mother's book, and that was in book form. She is the only one that has the original book form of the stories that have been written. In each chapter, there are different stories of different animals with different characters. One is an adventurous type of cat, another is a dog with dreams, and another is a horse with some ideas of how she wanted life to be.
The catsan interview between two cats. One of them is well travelled and very intelligent.

The dogsa story of a dog named Cora and her family and how she tells about her family and the way of life on a farm.

The horsesa story of a horse named Asta and how she was horsenapped.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543427165

Catherine Wilkinson

I have been writing for a little while, but never had thought about a book, until just recently. I draw and design ideas for a doll house that was given to me; I crochet and knit. I was born in Ventura, County and raised in Texas; my dad was in the Air force. We moved back to California in the '60s, where I went to high school and later working in my adult life. I have one older brother and two younger sisters. I worked in several places in California, before I had been offered a job as a nanny, which I worked for a period of 20 years. It was an experience living Switzerland for that amount of time and as a nanny; went to a lot of places like Scotland, England, Spain and Italy. Some of these places were so wonderful that I visited more than once. I began to write this book in Switzerland; I had been there for a few years when I started writing 'Cats, Dogs and Horses.’ It was then I was offered another nanny job. This family was animal friendly: a cat and two dogs in the beginning. We moved into two more houses in the vicinity, the big house up farther was the last of the houses, and it was the biggest. As we moved into the bigger house the horse of the name Asta La Vista was the other exciting example, and the last of the animals that would fit into the story line living there was the inspiration for the book, so you might say it would be non- fiction, but the writing came from the heart.

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Copyright © 2017 by Catherine Wilkinson.

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Rev. date: 06/19/2017

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CONTENTS

CATS

The Interview

Chapter One

      The Beginning

Chapter Two

      The Story

Chapter Three

      The Story

Chapter Four

      The Story

Chapter Five

      Ending of a Perfect Story

DOGS

On The Farm Introduction

The Ducklings The Arrival

The Adventure

HORSES

Kentucky

West Virginia

The Last Chapter

The End

CATS

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The Interview

Narrator

In this interview, we will be talking to a very special cat. His name is Caramello. From him we will hear a story of an ancient line of warriors, maybe some knights, and like us, a skeleton of two in the closet. Here he comes now, Mr. Caramello.

Caramello

Please call me by my first name, mister sounds so formal.

Narrator

Okay, Caramello. How are you today?

Caramello

I am very well, thank you. I was very surprised when I got your invitation in the mail. I’ve read some of your books and attended some of your seminars at the local university.

Narrator

I think I do like to be called Giles, my mother named me after her book William Tell, so my real name is Guilame, spelled G-u-i-l-a-m-e. My mother’s French and father is Greek.

Caramello

As you wish, Sir Giles. Why Sir Giles; were you knighted?

Sir Giles

Why, yes I was, Caramello; by the royal university I attended in Catbridge, an honorary title. I can’t really explain it better than that.

Caramello

Very interesting indeed.

Sir Giles

What books have you read, I would really like to know, Caramello.

Caramello

Well, there was The Cat on the Orient Express; which I enjoyed very much; then there was The Fugitive Cat and The Other Mind of the Cat. The seminars were most unusual.

Sir Giles

I am very impressed; some of the cats that attended did not seem to like it. Besides reading what else do you do?

Caramello

I’m interested in sports, eating in the most amusing restaurants and travel, but my interests lie in genealogy, researching for others, and looking into my own family tree.

Sir Giles

What do you research, may I ask?

Caramello

Mainly history, British history. I am at the moment doing my own research.

Sir Giles

And that is why you are here. Am I correct?

Caramello

Yes, you are right.

Sir Giles

I was just thinking, may we get together after this interview, so that we may have a talk about doing my own family tree?

Caramello

Excellent idea, Sir Giles. I must say that would be a challenge for me, I don’t know that much about you, except what I read in the newspapers and books I have collected.

Sir Giles

That’s quite alright. It would be fascinating to find out about how you became knighted.

Sir Giles reached for a bottle of sherry and two glasses.

Sir Giles

Would you like a glass of sherry with me?

Caramello

I would like that, thank you.

Sir Giles

Why don’t we start on the reason of your research and what you DID find?

Caramello

Good idea, we don’t want to go too late in the evening, I do have an appointment.

Sir Giles

Of course, it is getting a bit later already in the afternoon; just briefly please.

Caramello

I found out several months ago, after returning home. I had been overseas when my Auntie Maud become very sick; I was asked to return by my mother and some things needed to be stored away. In a very large box was a small box, very old and very, very curious, when I began to lift the bigger box on to table the table tilted and there went the box and the table. Papers, books and rolled up, looking very old documents.

Sir Giles

Old documents, how did you know they were old?

Caramello

Well, they were tied up with red and blue ribbons and then sealed with an imprint of a cross. I checked into the cross, because they looked familiar. I asked my aunt’s lawyer. He said he had no idea and would look into it.

When I continued to search in the big box, I found a secret handed that seemed it broke when the box fell. The box opened with a jerk and a very unusual book came out. Pictures of maps and symbols and a lot of writing, in different languages, or all things.

I took to the lawyer and recommended a fellow cat he knew, Mr. Belvedere. He called him and explained the situation and if I could bring the items he mentioned over to his business.

Certainly the lawyer explained what his friend said; he hung up and wrote down the address for me. I was surprised to see he lived only a few blocks down where he lived.

Sir Giles.

Well, that all sounds very exciting, but I have to ask if you may stop again and tell us the rest.

Caramello

Of course, just notify me at my address, or phone.

Chapter One

The Beginning

Sir Giles

Welcome back and I hope you are just as excited as I am having Caramello back. Remember we were just getting into the story; well I think I hear the door bell that means he is here and he can tell us the rest of the story.

Hello, Caramello, how are you today!

Caramello

A bit wet. It just started to rain, when I got off the bus. Other than that I’m doing very well.

Sir Giles

Please stand over by the fireplace and warm yourself. Would you like a glass of sherry?

Caramello

That sounds like a very good idea, thank you.

Sir Giles

You said you took the bus, I thought you had a car?

Caramello

I do, my assistant has the car today; he’s running some errands for me, but had I known it was going to pour down rain I would have had him drop me off here. The bus was an adventure in itself, remind me later if you want, I wouldn’t mind to tell you another story.

Sir Giles

Speaking of stories, how about reminding us where you stopped last week, my readers and I would like to be reminded.

Caramello

I think I mentioned Mr. Belvedere, is that right.

Sir Giles

I do believe that’s right! I do remember.

Caramello

He’s an expert on maps and books. You really should meet him, and the antiques he has collected over the years, I think nine years