Hello Children<\/p>\n
Here is a short story about Dick’s cat who whilst appearing often in pantomimes seems to be missing from most histories on the subject<\/p>\n
We all know that Dick was elected as the mayor of London on three occasions<\/p>\n
But what of Pete his cat who visited Morocco with Dick and solved the rat problem in the country returning much rewarded to London Town<\/p>\n
Was he erased from history for not using his cat litter or worse still for eating the Kings goldfinch<\/p>\n
No the truth is much stranger<\/p>\n
It is all to do with money and the lack of it<\/p>\n
As I have noted Pete was well rewarded for killing all the rats in Morocco and it was this and his love for a time traveller named Viola Gresham that gave him the idea of building his own time machine<\/p>\n
Well children you know that time machines do not come cheaply and soon Pete found himself in debt to some rather unpleasant money lenders from Barking<\/p>\n
It was when he was threatened by a rather psychotic dog that Pete decided to make himself scarce and give his half built time machine a try<\/p>\n
To say that the trip was a little troubled was something of an understatement as he landed in the prison cell of the mad poet Christopher Smart who soon took a great liking to him<\/p>\n
Christopher said that Pete was a rather common name and decided to call him Jeoffry<\/p>\n
Anything for the old loon thought the cat as he felt safe in the prison away from the rabid money lenders<\/p>\n
It was warm<\/p>\n
The food was good<\/p>\n
And there was room for his time machine<\/p>\n
But then Pete found out that the poet was writing lyrical poems about him and worse still some fool was publishing them<\/p>\n
It was time for action as he begun to receive canine death threats from his friends in Barking<\/p>\n
So he gave his decrepit time machine another try whilst Christopher was on some trip or another<\/p>\n
And that is dear reader where we lose track of Pete<\/p>\n
That said it was reported that he had been seen on the wastelands of Margate with a chap called Tom Eliot<\/p>\n
Viola tells me that he spent the rest of the days there with his American friend<\/p>\n
But when I pressed her for any other details she was vague<\/p>\n
But this might be true as in 1958 the remains of a time machine were found on the low sands near Margate<\/p>\n
Sadly the sea soon claimed the wreck before a salvage could take place<\/p>\n
Locals who were around at the time have told me of a cat that once frequented the streets of the area<\/p>\n
It is said that it changed its name to Stevens before vanishing once more<\/p>\n
That I guess was the final sighting of the time travelling cat<\/p>\n
Who knows where he is now<\/p>\n
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Merry Christmas All<\/p>\n
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Stuart<\/p>\n
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