Marmalade (3)

Marmalade (3)

As Marmalade walked around the corner, he came to the grocery shop. Now, they sold baked beans in there, but Marmalade never bought them from here - his own beans from his special tree were far better. Roger, the Tomcat was working in the shop. "Hello, Marmalade! Why do you look so sad?" Roger asked. "My baked bean tree has gone missing and I don't know why. Have you seen it anywhere?" Marmalade demanded. "Well, no, I haven't. Have you been looking after it properly, by weeding it regularly?" "Why should I bother weeding around my tree? I'm too busy. That's far too much work." Marmalade said angrily and with that he gave a 'humph' and walked off, with his head high in the air, swishing his tail around like he didn't have a care in the World. Marmalade continued walking, always looking for his tree. Soon he came to the bus stop where Terrance the tabby cat was standing waiting for the number 49 bus that goes into town. "Hello Marmalade. You don't look very happy. What ever is the matter with you?" Terrance asked very politely. "I'm looking for my baked bean tree. It seems to have gone missing and I don't know why. I don't suppose that you have seen it anywhere?" Marmalade asked, getting rather annoyed. "No, I haven't." replied Terrance, "Have you been feeding it plant food and fertilizer to keep it strong and healthy?" "Bah!" said Marmalade "Why should I bother doing things like that? It's only a tree, and besides, trees are strong enough too look after themselves. I don't have time to do that sort of thing. That's far too much work" and with that he gave a 'humph' and walked off, with his head high in the air, swishing his tail around like he didn't have a care in the World. By now Marmalade had almost decided to walk back home when he came to the park. The park was very big and there were lots of exciting things to do there. Leaning on the entrance to the gate was Bernard the boss cat. Bernard, as you can probably guess by his name was the boss of all the cats in the neighborhood. Bernard always knew everything that was going on. Sometimes he even knew things were going to happen before they even happened!


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