Reading Notes: Tales of Parrot, Part A

Black and white photo of a cat by E. Landor, Ealing. Web source: Wikimedia Commons.

Like the title of this post might hint to you, these stories are being told by a parrot. 

This specific story is called:

 The Old Lion and the Cat. 

- There is a very old and worn out lion. His teeth are falling apart, and food gets stuck in them. There was so much meat in fact that mice would come and pick it out when the old lion what sleeping. This is really gross, but I'm assuming that they are starving and desperate. 

- A fox suggests that a cat keep watch over night so that the lion can sleep without being disturbed. This cat seem pretty cool, and she is able to keep the mice away without hurting them. 

- One day the cat has to go run some errands, so she leaves the kitten with the lion. The only problem is that this kitten is not chill like the cat and it kills or eats all of the mice in the one night that the cat is gone. The cat is upset but the kitten is like, "Why didn't you tell be not to kill the mice?" 

- They both realize that they hold some of the blame, and then the cat got fired by the lion from her job. 

- I thought that this story was rather interesting because it shows that even though you come to terms with one person, like the cat and the kitten did, that does not mean that bad actions can go unpunished, like all of the mice being killed. 

 The Old Lion and the Cat. from Tales of a Parrot, by Ziya'al-Din Nakhshabi (1801). Web source: the Untextbook.