The Strange White Doves: True Mysteries of Nature by Alexander Key

Author:Alexander Key [Key, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781497652804
Publisher: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Published: 2014-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

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FORETELLERS OF DANGER

CATS ARE STRANGE CREATURES. No human has ever actually owned one, for the simple reason that it is cats who own people. If there is a cat in your house, he owns you as well as the house, and, unlike a dog, he does just as he pleases. Entirely independent, the cat is a slave to no one, though he can be downright goofy about his chosen person.

The strangest side of a cat is that he sees things we cannot see, hears things we cannot hear, and knows things that are beyond our knowing.

The most knowing of the many cats that have called our house their own is a neat little gray body who responds to the name Periwinkle. She has wisdom far beyond her years, and whenever I see her green eyes bug out at something invisible to humans, I think of the stranger who found her, a half-drowned kitten, abandoned down the valley one blustery night and brought her to us.

The stranger was Randy Grobe, a young person well known in Sarasota for helping homeless cats and dogs. Before he left, Randy told me about another cat, very much like Periwinkle in the matter of knowing things, who owned a bakery in Cincinnati.

A man by the name of Mr. Flach thought he owned the bakery, but of course he didn’t. Kitty really owned it. She owned the bakery and everyone in it except Mr. Flach. He didn’t care much for cats and merely tolerated her, so naturally she merely tolerated him.

The bakery was large, with a sizable staff to keep the big gas ovens in constant operation. Everyone there—except Mr. Flach—loved Kitty, and she loved them. She was a quiet cat who always minded her own business and never got in anyone’s way. But one day she suddenly changed.

She went crazy. All at once she was in everybody’s way. She yowled, dashed from one person to another, looked wildly at each of them, then raced like a mad thing to Mr. Flach. Yowling frantically, she dashed back through the bakery to one of the great gas ovens.

Mr. Flach realized almost instantly that Kitty was trying to tell him something. He hastened after her. There was no outward sign that anything had gone wrong, but when he examined the big oven to which she led him, he discovered to his horror that it was about to explode. A minute or two later, the bakery would have been destroyed and possibly everyone in it killed.

Needless to say, Mr. Flach became very fond of Kitty, who turned out to be one of the most loved and pampered cats in Cincinnati.

How could any creature, cat or otherwise, have known ahead of time that something was going to happen? That is the old question. Let me tell you about Pepper.

Pepper was a family cat, a big, black, exceedingly tough tom who caused his folks a great deal of worry one summer when they decided to go away for several months. What was to be done with Pepper? He hated to travel, and he hated being caged.

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