Of late a small ceramic cat with a blue head <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Has taken refuge in our house <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It appears to be spooked <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And often hides in dark corners <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a silent unassuming cat <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But has now told me its woeful story <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was the cat of young Anne Naylor <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who was apprenticed to a mother and daughter <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They owned a hat making shop <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But were a murderous pair of demons <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who finally after much cruelty killed poor Anne <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They then baked me in an oven <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I was able before I died <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To enjoy my last icy London morning <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hence the detail of my person <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They dissected Anne but spared me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We were both hidden in an open sewer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until we were discovered in gruesome detail <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By a shocked watchman passing <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My owner was given a Christian burial <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But her soul was left behind <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was soon buried in the foul mud <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We shared this terrible grave for many years <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until the underground railway was built <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anne and I were disturbed greatly <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is when the famous hauntings began <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anne’s endless screams and my odd appearance <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is at rest now or at least sleeping beneath the tracks <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But will return and her screams will again haunt <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Farringdon Station <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no room for me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mine is an extinguished haunting <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I have taken to the road <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that is the reason <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That I am now here <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A baked ceramic cat <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With an ice blue head <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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