The Marquis of Carabas did what the Cat advised him to , without knowing why or wherefore . While he was washing the King passed by , and the Cat began to cry out : `` Help ! help ! My Lord Marquis of Carabas is going to be drowned . '' At this noise the King put his head out of the coach-window , and , finding it was the Cat who had so often brought him such good game , he commanded his guards to run immediately to the assistance of his Lordship the Marquis of Carabas . While they were drawing the poor Marquis out of the river , the Cat came up to the coach and told the King that , while his master was washing , there came by some rogues , who went off with his clothes , though he had cried out : `` Thieves ! thieves ! '' several times , as loud as he could . This cunning Cat had hidden them under a great stone . The King immediately commanded the officers of his wardrobe to run and fetch one of his best suits for the Lord Marquis of Carabas . The King caressed him after a very extraordinary manner , and as the fine clothes he had given him extremely set off his good mien -LRB- for he was well made and very handsome in his person -RRB- , the King 's daughter took a secret inclination to him , and the Marquis of Carabas had no sooner cast two or three respectful and somewhat tender glances but she fell in love with him to distraction . The King would needs have him come into the coach and take part of the airing . The Cat , quite overjoyed to see his project begin to succeed , marched on before , and , meeting with some countrymen , who were mowing a meadow , he said to them : `` Good people , you who are mowing , if you do not tell the King that the meadow you mow belongs to my Lord Marquis of Carabas , you shall be chopped as small as herbs for the pot . '' The King did not fail asking of the mowers to whom the meadow they were mowing belonged . `` To my Lord Marquis of Carabas , '' answered they altogether , for the Cat 's threats had made them terribly afraid . `` You see , sir , '' said the Marquis , `` this is a meadow which never fails to yield a plentiful harvest every year . '' The Master Cat , who went still on before , met with some reapers , and said to them : `` Good people , you who are reaping , if you do not tell the King that all this corn belongs to the Marquis of Carabas , you shall be chopped as small as herbs for the pot . '' The King , who passed by a moment after , would needs know to whom all that corn , which he then saw , did belong . `` To my Lord Marquis of Carabas , '' replied the reapers , and the King was very well pleased with it , as well as the Marquis , whom he congratulated thereupon . The Master Cat , who went always before , said the same words to all he met , and the King was astonished at the vast estates of my Lord Marquis of Carabas .
Monsieur Puss came XXXXX last to a stately castle , the master of which was an ogre , the richest had ever been known ; for all the lands which the King had then gone over belonged to this castle .
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