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This is a humorous retelling of the classic fairy tale "Puss in Boots," adapted for a modern (early 20th-century) audience. The story follows a poor miller's youngest son, Irving, who receives only a cat as inheritance. The clever cat secures Irving's fortune by presenting game to a king, eventually arranging Irving's marriage to the king's daughter Sybil. The satire targets contemporary concerns: the son's initial poverty and reliance on lawyers who "got everything," the family's desperation, and Irving's reluctance to fake drowning until threatened—suggesting both cynicism about romance and commentary on insurance fraud. The cat's use of a "new model Ford" updates the fairy tale to the modern era, mocking both wealth-seeking and the absurdity of traditional stories transplanted to contemporary life. The overall tone is lighthearted mockery of both poverty and social climbing.
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Puss in Boots TT" story starts off about a miller, so we ‘better pull the old’ gig: Why does a miller wear a white hat? Answer, to cover his head! Ha! ha! We fooled you! Well, anyway, once upon a time there was a miller who was so poor when he died that all he left his three sons wa piece of pork, and oldest: sons drew the mort 1 morigage, a The two > and the pork, so they went into the real estate and meat business and made good. But the third son who got the cat was sore and contested the will, but the lawyers got everything and he had to fall back on the cat. Well, one day he was sitting in a subwe station and he says to the cat, “Well, Morris, after I eat you and sell your skin, what will IT do then? I ask you.” The cat thinks a while and ) 3e your age, Irving (that was the name). All L want is a burlap bag and a pair of boots and I will g you out of this jam.” “Ha!” says JUDGE Marquis Irving falls into the drint:. calling shoes boots?” But he gave the cat the bag and the boots and away he went. He ln while and ‘ound a cornfield fora ed with a couple of are you trying to be English, rabbits till they walked into the bag: then he took them to the king of that “Here is a present country and says from my boss, Marquis Irving.” The king was overcome with joy. as he and his beautiful daughter Sybil had been living on pretzels and port © for years. The next day the showed up with half a dozen spring chickens and told: the same story. He did this for a week, each lime bringing some choice g Then one day he read in the spin in his new model Ford. with Sybil. So he went to Irving and told him to make believe he was drowning in a river that the king Irving didn’t first hecause his life Was going to pa want to do i insurance had just ran out, but the cat threatened him and_ finally he gave in. So when the king drove by the river he heard a yell for help and all of a sudden the cat dives out of the comicbooks.com