Page 17 - La Gatta racconta la sua storia - Puss Tells the History of Her Fairy Tale

stopped starving, but he was still mangy. I led
him to the river to clean him up, and then I licked
his body everywhere. Voilà! His skin was smooth
and free from flaws, and he looked like a true
prince!
I do not understand why nobody except
Straparola tells of how I made my master
Fortunato beautiful. Cats clean themselves with
their tongue, and they make their kittens
beautiful in the same way.
I convinced my new story-tellers to rewrite this
endeavor of mine, but they could only do it in the
e-book. Walter Crane, who provided them with
his images, never painted anything of the way I
cured my master of scabies and ringworm.
Then I put that plan of mine to use, pretending
that some racketeers had robbed my master, and
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