How Cats Gained Whiskers

So this is how it went:

Once upon a time cats had no whiskers. Imagine how plain they looked.

One day, a magnificent lion, whilst dozing in the sun and waiting for food to appear, pondered at his reflection in the waterhole and was sad at what he saw. He had a fine coat and a pleasing hair style but something was missing; he needed the final touches. "A moustache perhaps, maybe curled eyebrows", he considered, but then out of the corner of his eye he suddenly spotted movement. Time to play! What he had spotted was a tiny seed floating in the breeze and wafting about under a canopy fit for a small parachutist, a very small parachutist. He just had to catch it and frantically leapt and batted his big paws at it but without success. His powerful legs just made a draft which blew the seed further away. He was cross. The seed was such a lovely thing and he wanted it badly, his white teeth chattering and his rough pink tongue licking his lips with expectation and desire. Quite suddenly the breeze carried the tiny thing his way and straight onto the tip of his nose. Happy and excited, not to say a little tickled, he licked it off and, well, he swallowed it. Now he wished he had played with it for longer but, not being a creature to dwell on such thoughts, he dozed off again, dreaming of more exciting catches.

It was the next morning when he awoke. He licked and groomed himself before checking his appearance in the pool, turning his chin from side to side and up and down as he always did. With a gasp of breath he looked again; and again. Overnight he had become very handsome having grown lovely whiskers just like the floating seed. The king of beasts was no longer plain looking ~ he was a dandy lion!

...and that's why we call those lovely yellow weeds, "dandelion".




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