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The cat, quite overjoyed to see how his project was
succeeding, ran on ahead. Meeting some countrymen
who were mowing a meadow, he said to them, "My good
fellows, if you do not tell the king that the meadow you are
mowing belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas, you shall
be chopped up like mincemeat."

The king did not fail to ask the mowers whose meadow it
was that they were mowing:

"It belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas," they answered
all together, for the cat's threats had frightened them."You
see, sir," said the marquis, "this is a meadow which never
fails to yield a plentiful harvest every year."

The master cat, still running on ahead, met with some
reapers, and said to them, "My good fellows, if you do not
tell the king that all this grain belongs to the Marquis of
Carabas, you shall be chopped up like mincemeat."

The king, who passed by a moment later, asked
them whose grain it was that they were reaping:
astonished
(adj.):
"It belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas," asombrado
replied the reapers, which pleased both the king
and the marquis. The king congratulated him for his fine
harvest. The master cat continued to run ahead and said the
same words to all he met. The king was astonished at the
vast estates of the Lord Marquis of Carabas.

The master cat came at last to a stately castle, the lord of
which was an ogre, the richest that had ever been known.
All the lands, which the king had just passed by, belonged
to this castle. The cat, who had taken care to inform himself
who this ogre was and what he could do, asked to speak
with him, saying he could not pass so near his castle without
having the honor of paying his respects to him.

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