One day, Mr. Fox was walking through a very dense portion of the woods and he saw a black and white tail sticking out from one of the berry bushes next to the trail. He grabbed the tail and pulled out a kitten.
“Ahhhhh!” The kitten screamed as several blueberries dropped from her already purple face. “Please Mr. Fox, do not eat me. I am just a little kitten, but if you let me go, I can take you further into the woods where there is one of my sisters. She is much fatter than I.”
After pondering this option for several moments, Mr. Fox thought if he could have an even fatter cat, then why not. He was growing hungry, but he could last a little longer. “Ok little one,” he soothingly spoke, “take me to this kitten, and I’ll let you go.” So the two went even deeper into the forest. They went even past the trail until finally they came upon another kitten, sleeping on a low hanging branch.
The smallest kitten was right, Mr. Fox thought to himself, she is much bigger. So he let the smallest go, and grabbed the fatter cat from the tree branch. The kitten awoke and knew immediately what was happening.
“Please don’t eat me Mr. Fox,” begged the kitten, “I may look appetizing to you, but if you can believe it, I can take you to another cat like me. She is even more plump than I. You could eat her and be full for a week.”
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| (Image Information: One fat cat; a personal photo from 2014) |
Mr. Fox was very hungry at this point, and growing a little irritated, but his mouth watered as this kitten told him about an even bigger meal. “Fine, show me the way little fatty.”
So the two delved deeper and deeper into the woods. Until finally the forest was so dense that Mr. Fox was having a hard time seeing what was in front of him. “Just a few more feet,” said the kitten, “Your prize should be inside the bush covered with red berries. Go just around this tree and see for yourself.”
Mr. Fox peered around the tree, and right there in front of him was a red-berried bush. Salivating at its sight, he jumped right into the bush, and tore it to shreds. Once all the berries were on the ground, Mr. Fox realized that there was no kitten this time. Desperately going back around the tree, he planned to eat the fatty that had led him to the bush; however, the kitten was nowhere to be found. Mr. Fox had been outsmarted by three little kittens. Now starving and lost, Mr. Fox began his trek, hoping to make his way back to the trail.
Author's Note: This is loosely based on Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs. In this story, several frogs trick Brer Fox into looking into a lake. Thinking he sees another fox in the lake (actually seeing his reflection), Brer Fox touches the lake and falls into the water. The frogs laugh at him as he is almost drowned. In this version, I changed the frogs to cats because frogs suck meow.
Bibliography: "Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs", from Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, by Joel Chandler Harris (1881)
Awesome story. Because meow, that's why LOL Uncle Remus is a hoot to read, all of the stories are usually really funny, some are just plain weird though. I really don't have any critique on the story itself, but towards the end, the formatting gets a little wonky from the previous paragraphs. I'm guessing you copied and pasted, since that's what happens when I do it :)
ReplyDeletePretty sure I've mentioned this before, but I really enjoy how all of your story re-tellings have something to do with cats. It's a simple and nice theme. I personally didn't read any of Brer Rabbit, but from other people's story retellings I gather in the original stories there was a dialect in the way the stories were told. I'm surprised you didn't keep with the dialect, but you told a great story (per usual) regardless. Also, your ridiculously fat cat is very cute.
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