The magic cat
Joy Mary
Magriet Brink

Once upon a time there lived a little girl called Samara in a small village an a valley sarrounded by many hills called mau. Samara lived with her very old mother who was very poor and often fell sick from time to time and no one cared

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Samara and her mother were very poor they would go and sit at the market place and beg for money so to be able to buy food and medicine for her sick mother ,samara always prayed to God to give them money and promised to be grateful always

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Samara named the cat Tamara before she fell asleep. That night the cat that Samara found transformed into a little beautiful princess and placed some money on the floor and wrote a note telling Samara to always say thank you the she changed

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When Samara woke up and found the money she was very happy, she said thank you to whoever did that and went to buy some medicine and food for her mother who was now very sick ,she also bought new clothes and repaired the house

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This continued for some time. Everytime Samara would wake up she would find some money on the floor, she told her mother what was happening,her mother was very troubled and suspected the cat was unnatural but still they needed the money

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Everyday was the same and they got richer and richer untill Samara started to forget to say thank you whenever she woke up because it was becoming obvious she would find money. this continueed for some time untill one day when she woke up

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When Samara woke up she didn't find any money, thought maybe whoever puts the money had forgotten,the next day the same thing happened, and also the day after ,Samara started to become really worried and told her mother who was also worried

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One day Samara woke up and found that the cat was missing she looked for it but didn't find it, when she went outside she found the princess sitting on a tree and asked if she had seen a white cat the princess told her that she was the cat

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The cat explained everything and told her that she had really failed to say thank you so now she will lose everything,Samara cried for mercy but it was too late the became poor again and the princess immediately despaired and was never seen

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The magic cat
Author - Joy Mary
Illustration - Magriet Brink, Abraham Muzee, Rob Owen, Brian Wambi, Catherine Groenewald
Language - English
Level - First paragraphs