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“Puss in Boots”
Charles Perrault TRACK 7

here was a miller who could only leave his three sons his
Tmill, his donkey, and his cat. The division was soon made.
They hired neither a clerk nor an attorney, for they would
have eaten up all the poor patrimony. The eldest took the
mill, the second the donkey, and the
attorney (n.):
youngest nothing but the cat. abogado

The poor young fellow was quite inconsolable for having
received so little. "My brothers," said he, "may make a
handsome living by joining their shares together; but, for my
part, after I have eaten up my cat, and made myself a muff
from his skin, I must then die of hunger."

The cat, who heard all this, but pretended otherwise, said to
him with a grave and serious air, "Do not be so concerned,
my good master. If you will but give me a bag, and have a
pair of boots made for me, that I may scamper
scramper
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