The Cat Who Came In off the Roof by Annie M. G. Schmidt
Author:Annie M. G. Schmidt [Colmer, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2016-01-19T00:00:00+00:00
âI donât understand,â Minou said for the umpteenth time. âThis has to go in the paper: Tatter Cat Crippled by the President of the Animal Loversâ Association.â
âNo,â said Tibble. âââCats arenât news,â thatâs what my boss says.â
âHitting a poor old mother cat with a bottle!â said Minou. âShe might never recover.â
âIâm not entirely surprised,â Tibble said hesitantly, âat someone losing their temper when they suddenly see a stray cat standing on their salmon. And I can imagine them grabbing whateverâs at hand to knock it off the table.â
âReally?â said Minou, giving Tibble such a vicious look that he stepped back out of range of her nails.
âIn any case, itâs not something for the paper,â he said. âAnd thatâs all there is to it.â
Whenever Minou was angry, she got into her box to sulk. She was about to do that now, but Fluff came in through the kitchen window with a long-drawn-out meow.
âWhatâs he saying?â Tibble asked.
âThe fishmonger?â cried Minou.
âRwoâ¦wwieeuâ¦rowâ¦,â Fluff continued. He told her an ecstatic story in Cattish, then disappeared again, back on the roof.
âWhat about the fishmonger?â Tibble asked.
âHeâs in the hospital!â
âReally? I thought it sounded like Fluff had good news.â
âThe fishmonger got hit by a car,â Minou said. âIt ran right into his fish stall. All the local cats are going straight there because thereâs fish spread all over the road.â
âIâm on my way,â Tibble said. âI can write an article about this.â And he grabbed his pad.
âIâm going too,â Minou said. âOver the roof, thatâs faster.â
She tried to climb out of the window, but Tibble stopped her. âNo, Miss Minou. I donât want my secretary scrounging around an upset fish stall like an old alley cat!â
Minou gave him a haughty look.
âWhatâs more,â said Tibble, âthereâs bound to be a lot of people there, and you donât like that.â
âFine, Iâll stay here,â said Minou. âIâll hear the news on the roof.â
â
There were a lot of people in Green Square. A real crowd. The police were there, there was glass on the street from the broken windows, and the fish stall was completely wrecked; there were slats and boards all over the place, the bunting had been trodden underfoot, and the last cat was running off with the last herring.
Mr. Smith was looking around too.
âThey just drove off with the fishmonger,â he said. âTheyâre taking him to the hospital. Heâs got a broken rib.â
âWhat happened?â Tibble asked.
âA car! But the weird thing is nobody knows which car. It was a hit and run. Outrageous!â
âWerenât there any witnesses? Right in the middle of the day?â
âNo,â said Mr. Smith. âIt was twelve noon exactly. Everyone was having lunch. They all heard the smash, but by the time theyâd come out to have a look, the car had gone round the corner.â
âAnd the fishmonger?â
âHe doesnât know either. One moment he was gutting some herring, the next thing heâs upside down, stall and all. The police have questioned everyone here in the neighborhood, but no one saw the car. It must have been a stranger, someone from out of town.
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