Bobby Jones, Author

HOW THE CAT GOT ITS MEOW
by Bobby Jones, 8 years old
May 2008

Once upon a time there was a big house and the people who lived there had five cats named Scruffy, Puffy, Doofy, Poofy and Pedro. Pedro was different from all of the other cats because all of the other cats were kind of fat and lazy. Well, Pedro, he was speedy and energetic. One day Pedro was doing his daily run around the house when all of the sudden there was a vase right in front of him. He had never seen it before and he could not stop. Then he crashed right into it. Doofy was the only cat that saw what happened and he was too dumb to tell who it was. So about a minute later the man walked into the room. He said, "Who did this?" Nobody confessed. So the man said, "I'll be right back." When he came back he had a dog. The man said, "Line up!" All of the cats lined up. Pedro was at the end of the line. The man told the dog to bite all of the cats until one of the cats confessed. The dog bit Scruffy, Puffy, Doofy and Poofy. Then Pedro said, "ME" and right after he said that, the dog bit his tail. Then Pedro said "ME-OW!". And that's how the cat got its meow.

**Bobby's teacher put all the children's folk lore writings into a really cute little booklet and then the children gave them to their moms for Mother's Day. I will treasure it forever!!