Li'l Miggle and the Scavenger Hunt

One day Li'l Miggle and Li'l Tiggle were playing in the back yard. Momma Cat poked her head out and asked, "Li'l Miggle, Li'l Tiggle, can you run some errands for me?"

"In a minute, Momma!" they answered, and went back to playing.

A few minutes later, Momma Cat asked again, "Li'l Miggle, Li'l Tiggle, can you run some errands for me?"

Again, the kittens replied, "In a minute, Momma!" and went back to playing.

A few minutes later, Momma Cat asked yet again, "Li'l Miggle, Li'l Tiggle, can you run some errands for me?"

And once again, the kittens called back, "In a minute, Momma!" and went back to playing.

Finally Momma Cat gave up and went out to run errands herself. When she came back, she popped out into the yard and called, "Li'l Miggle, Li'l Tiggle, I found a treasure map, but I don't have time to figure it out. Maybe you can help."

"A treasure map?" The kittens scampered over excitedly. Momma Cat handed them a scrap of paper with a map on it, and disappeared back into the house.

"Let's see..." Li'l Miggle rotated the map around and around, trying to figure out what it was showing.

"Wait a minute," Li'l Tiggle cried. "Is that our pine tree?" He pointed excitedly to the fuzzy triangle, then the big pine standing in their back yard.

"Li'l Tiggle, that's brilliant! This is a map of our back yard!" Li'l Miggle bounced excitedly. "So that means..."

"...we have to go..." Li'l Tiggle traced the dotted lines to the X.

"Isn't that the fish seller?" Li'l Miggle stared at the map dubiously.

"Let's go!" Li'l Tiggle scampered off, with Li'l Miggle following close behind.

The kittens arrived at Harry's Hake Shop and began scraping around in all the hidden corners.

"What are you kids up to there?" Harry asked.

"We're on a treasure hunt!" the kittens chorused.

Harry chuckled. "Well all right, but as long as you're here, take these sardines back to your momma."

The kittens accepted the sardines, and continued to search the shop. Finally, Li'l Miggle cried, "AHA!" She tugged out a crumpled piece of paper from under a jar of pickled fish, and held it triumphantly.

Li'l Tiggle rushed over and together they smoothed out the map. "Where do we go next?" he asked excitedly.

The kittens squinted at the map, rotating it this way and that, until Li'l Miggle lifted her head and looked out the window. "Wait a minute..." She took the map, held it up to the window, and yelled, "It's the fountain!"

"That means...." Li'l Tiggle took the map back, tilting his head this way and that. "The green grocer!"

The kittens rushed out of the shop, yelling "Thanks Harry!" as they went. Around the fountain, down the street, there was the green grocer!

The old curmudgeon who ran the green grocer looked at the excited kittens scampering around his shop, shook his head, and sighed. "As long as you kids are here, you might as well take this home to your momma," he hollered and set out a basket of cat grass.

Li'l Miggle and Li'l Tiggle grabbed the basket, and then squealed in delight as they found the next clue, tucked under the oranges! They quickly scampered out of the green grocer, sitting down again in the sun to investigate the next map.

"This looks like...." They peered at the strange lines. "Is this..." They looked at each other. "The giant chicken statue!" Yelling triumphantly, they followed the map past the giant chicken statue and on to Mr. Mewser's Dairy Farm.

The kittens raced around the dairy farm, upsetting all the goats, until Mr. Mewser came out to see what was the matter. When he saw the kittens, he called out, "Hoy, Li'l Miggle, Li'l Tiggle! Slow down, or you'll get a kick from the goats!"

"Sorry, Mr. Mewser!" The kittens slowed down, creeping around so as to not upset the poor goats.

"By the way, since you're here, take this milk back to your momma!" Mr. Mewser put out a bucket and went back into the barn.

Li'l Miggle and Li'l Tiggle finally found the next clue, wedged between two slats of siding on the barn. "Let's see, let's see," they crowded around eagerly.

"Hey, it's the fuzzy triangle again," Li'l Tiggle said.

"Back to our yard!" cried Li'l Miggle.

They gathered up the sardines, the cat grass, and the milk, and raced back home.

"Hi Momma Cat!" Li'l Miggle yelled as they ran through the house.

"Here's the groceries," panted Li'l Tiggle as he set them down on the table, before running out into the yard."

The next clue was hidden in a hole in the side of the big pine tree. There was no map this time, only a bunch of nonsense letters. They puzzled over it for a long, long time. Finally, after almost an hour, they solved it: C-O-M-E-I-N-S-I-D-E.

"Co mein side?" Li'l Tiggle scratched his head.

"No, it says to come inside!" Li'l Miggle jumped to her feet. "Come on!"

They raced back into the house, where Momma Cat had just finished cooking. "Perfect! You found the treasure!"

"Where is it, Momma Cat?" they asked, wide eyed.

"Go wash up, treasure's on the table." She smiled fondly at them.

It was the yummiest supper Li'l Miggle and Li'l Tiggle had ever had.

Boo Cat and the Hole in the Ground

Once upon a time, Boo Cat was wandering through the forest when she came upon a log. She investigated it with her snoot. She snooted the top. She snooted the bottom. She snooted all along the front. She snooted the far side of the log, where she discovered a hole in the ground. She snooted the hole, as far as she could, when suddenly, a ferret popped out and booped her on the snoot!

"Ack!" Boo Cat was startled. She snooted the burrow again, where the ferret had gone.

The ferret popped out and booped her snoot again.

"Ack!" Boo Cat sat back, nonplussed. "This hole in the ground is dangerous."

"It sure is!" The ferret popped back out. "Wanna snuggle?"

Boo Cat considered this. "Okay."

So Boo Cat and the ferret snuggled next to the dangerous hole in the ground.

Boo Cat

Once upon a time, there was a little boo cat who lived in a big jungle. The boo cat was called a boo cat because it liked to jump out at things and yell "Boo!" at them. The jungle was full of huge trees and thick bushes. This boo cat was very particular, and it liked to keep a very clean house. Every morning, the boo cat would roam all over the jungle picking up bits of fuzz. The boo cat was very fluffy, and shed a lot. One day, the boo cat was picking up fuzz when it heard a rustle nearby. It crept up quietly, and leaped on it! You'll never guess what the boo cat found!

A bunny?

It was a bunny. The boo cat pounced upon the bunny, and had dinner that night.