How The Cat

Got Its Purr

(A Just-So Story By Adam DeBacker)

My Sweet Darling, a long time ago when the world was fairly new, it was shaking and shaking and never stopped shaking. There was a cat who lived in the heart of the weeping willows. There were more animals in the weeping willows, like weasels and toads and moles and rats and badgers. Quigonyan lived there too by himself with nobody else. Quigonyan caused the world to shake, because he lived far from the heart of the weeping willow, far from the animals and was very lonely. One day the cat snuck away from the heart of the weeping willow and went into the house of Quigonyan. Quigonyan was out hunting and the cat crawled into Quigonyan’s bed. When Quigonyan got back at night, the cat was there. Quigonyan got into bed and snuggled the cat. When he did, all of the shaking inside the world stopped and the cat started to purr.
The End.