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In an old Victorian building live two cats and a lady, The girl cat is Patches and the boy cat is called Peanut; And the lady is called mother, they all live in harmony. One day, mother decided the cats needed to have collars, So, she bought a pink one for Patches and a blue one for Peanut; Each collar had a little bell that tinkled and tinkled as the cats walked. Now, Patches loved her collar but Peanut twisted about, He flopped on his back, putting his paws inside the blue collar; Finally, the bell fell off and he pounced after it across the room. As Patches walked around her little bell went tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, Peanut was determined to get that bell and became quite the pest; Mother talked to Peanut telling him to STOP and leave the bell alone. When mother came home from work the cats came, She reached to stroke Patches and noticed the pink collar; The bell was MISSING, she looked at Peanut, bad cat she said. Where the bells went is still a MYSTERY that will stay unsolved, Patches always wore her pink collar, she really loved to show it off; Peanut totalled destroyed his within days and was very proud of that. Mother pulled out furniture to look for those bells, She looked in every corner, in every cupboard and drawer; The bells were too big to eat, where did Peanut put those bells. Well in time Peanut, although young went to heaven, God decides, Patches followed not long after and mother was left so heartbroken; One night, she was awoken to the sound of two tinkling, tinkling bells. And still years after . . . she often hears those mysterious tinkling bells. ____________________ October 27, 2012 Poetry/Narrative/The Mystery Of The Bells Copyright Protected, ID 10-431-323-27 All Rights Reserved, 2012, Constance La France In Memory of Peanut the Cat and Patches the Cat (and the bells have never been found) Submitted to the Standard contest, Mystery sponsor, Nayda Ivette Negron, Judged 11/2012 Third Place
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