Use the drop-down menus to identify how the reader's
emotions change during the story.
The reader feels
during the story
when each new cat is bigger than the last one.
The reader feels
when Martin
speaks and runs out the door with a chair stuck to his
backside.
That timber cat walks over and sits down in the fire. Just
like the other cats did it. And he picks up this live coal.
And he puts it right on his slanted, green eyes. He dusts
his eyeballs with it! And he turns around to the other cats
sittin on each side of John.
The timber cat says to the other cats, says, showin his
teeth, "What you want to do with him there?" And looks
straight dead at John, too.
And the other cats say right back all in one meow, "We
better wait till Martin comes."
With that, John gives a great heave up. The chair comes
up with him. But at least he was up. And he runs out the
wide-open front door. He's callin as he goes out flyin,
"Mister Cats! You tell Martin I was here, but I couldn't
wait on him. And now I'm gone!"
And he was. Long gone. And never seen in that county
since.
