and as the dragon came out of the dungeon, following johnnie and tina into the bright gold and blue of their wedding day, he blinked his eyes as a cat does in the sunshine, and he shook himself, and the last of his plates dropped off, and his wings with them, and he was just like a very, very extra-sized cat. and from that day he grew furrier and furrier, and he was the beginning of all cats. nothing of the dragon remained except the claws, which all cats have still, as you can easily ascertain.