Only a Cat 只是一只猫（外教全英）

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今天大熊给大家带来的故事，与勇气和尝试有关。故事的主人公是一只活泼可爱的小猫咪。平日里，她对任何没有做过的事情都抱有一颗想尝试的心。哪怕要吃苦头，也阻止不了她探索新事物的脚步。这次她又有哪些新的尝试呢？一起来听故事吧。

Kitten-Cat’s mother was dozing

so Kitten-Cat played with her tail…and played with her tail…

and climbed on to the washing line to try some flying.

“Whoops!” laughed the birds.

“Hasn’t anyone told you? Cats can’t fly.” 

So Kitten-Cat picked herself up, smoothed herself down and went to trysome nut-cracking.

 “Oh dear, oh dear!” chuckled thesquirrels.

“Haven’t you noticed? Cats can’t crack nuts.”

So Kitten-Cat put her nose in the air and slipped down to the stream totry some hopping.

“Silly billy!” croaked the frogs.

“Look at yourself! You’re a cat and cats can’t hop.”

So Kitten-Cat shook the mud from her paws,

and strolled over to the henhouse to try some crowing.

“Nonsense and ridiculous!” said the cockerel.

“Cockerels crow, not cats.

And you, my dear, are not a cockerel. You’re only a cat.”

So Kitten-Cat put her tail between her legs and crept back to hermother.

“Wake up!” she cried. “Wake up!”

“I can’t do anything. I’m only a cat!”

“Only a cat indeed!” Kitten-Cat’s mother sprang to her feet.

“Then I think the time has come for you to follow me…

…first we’ll climb a tree

…catch a mouse or two or three

…walk a tightrope and another

…move more silently than lizards

…get the lazy guard dog guarding

…take a nap where he can’t reach us

…make quite sure no cream is wasted

…see as clear as day in darkness

…call a meeting in the clearing and announce in purrs like thunder,

ONLY A CAT CAN DO ALL THAT!”

But Kitten-Cat couldn’t stay for the applause.

She was already down at the river.

“Because,” she told the fish, “if a cat can do all that, surely a catcan……SWIM?”