The youngest son grumbled, “I’ll just end up eating the cat.”

Listening to this, Puss, the cat said, “Do not be sad, master. Just give me a bag and a pair of boots. Then, I will show you that you did not receive such a poor ____ (1) in me.”

Thinking how ____ (2) the cat was, he thought to give the cat a chance to help him.

He went to the market, spent his last pennies on ordering a pair of boots for the cat, and gave the cat his bag. The cat looked very ____ (3) in his boots.

Then, the cat put bran and corn into his bag, held the strings of the bag in his two fore paws and laid by a rabbit ____ (4), stretching as if he were dead. 

He waited for some young rabbits, who were still not acquainted with the ____ (5) of the world.

Not long after that, a reckless young rabbit jumped into his bag, and Puss shortly drew close the strings and caught the rabbit.

He went happily to the palace with a rabbit in his bag. He begged to speak with the king.

Meeting the king in person, he made a low bow and said, “I have brought you, my majesty, a rabbit of the warren, which my ____ (6) lord, the Marquis of Carabas has commanded me to present to you.”

The king surely was very pleased with the present.

Another time, again, he hid among a cornfield, held his bag open, and when a brace of ____ (7) ran into it, he soon drew the strings and caught them.

The same as what he had done before, he made these a present for the king.

The cat kept continuing sending the presents for three months and constantly said that the presents were from his master, the Marquis of Carabas.

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One day, he heard that the king and his daughter were about to drive in his carriage along the river bank.

Puss in Boots told his master: “If you follow my advice, your ____ (8) is close.”