A woman and her cat are waiting for the husband to come home when he flings the door open. He starts ranting about how while he was digging a grave he fell asleep and when he woke up he saw 9 white cats carrying a coffin. He said they came closer and closer to him and the biggest cat in the front of the group said, "Tell Tom Tildrum that Tim Toldrum's dead." After saying this, their cat, Tom, starts swelling up and says, "What? Old Tom dead! then I'm the King o' the Cats!" The cat runs up the chimney and is never seen again.
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| Tom, King o' the Cats! sourced via Wikipedia |
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More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
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