Next it was a horse , and after that a camel , and when the sultan was told he said , ` You do n't like this cat , and want me to kill it . And I shall not kill it . Let it eat the camel : let it even eat a man . ' And it waited till the next day , and caught some one 's child . And the sultan was told , ` The cat has caught a child . ' And he said , ` The cat is mine and the child mine . ' Then it caught a grown-up man . After that the cat left the town and took up its abode in a thicket near the road . So if any one passed , going for water , it devoured him . If it saw a cow going to feed , it devoured him . If it saw a goat , it devoured him . Whatever went along that road the cat caught and ate . Then the people went to the sultan in a body , and told him of all the misdeeds of that cat . But he answered as before , ` The cat is mine and the people are mine . ' And no man dared kill the cat , which grew bolder and bolder , and at last came into the town to look for its prey . One day , the sultan said to his six sons , ' I am going into the country , to see how the wheat is growing , and you shall come with me . ' They went on merrily along the road , till they came to a thicket , when out sprang the cat , and killed three of the sons . ` The cat ! The cat ! ' shrieked the soldiers who were with him .
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