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Roll lay full on cozy sofas, his loving mistress Erica was pleasantly scratching behind his ear, and he reasoned that these creatures were strange people. For example, Frida – her name means "peaceful", and from her nothing but scandals and riots. Or black dogs are often called Zorro, although Zorro in Spanish is a fox, and after all, foxes are mostly red.

Roll, although he was a small kitten, but very well-read. All because he was more silent and watched everything and thought. No wonder that in Holland, where they recently moved from Germany, there was a saying “to look out of the tree like a cat”, which means to be careful, attentive, unhurried and reasonable. Roll tried to be like that.

Roll also loved to lie by the window and watch the events taking place. Moreover, in this Lowland, as the name of the Kingdom of the Netherlands was translated, it rained very often and the most reasonable thing, of course, was to be where it remained dry and warm.

And so, on rainy days, the kitten lay on the radiator and looked at the creeping drops on the glass. In front of him, people sometimes humorously minced, hunched over under an umbrella – and everyone was in a hurry. And Roll was in no hurry. He often fell into a sweet slumber, and when he woke up, the picture changed: either a flock of chirping gray birds flew, then a white cloud appeared in the clearing sky, like a castle made of sour cream. Thinking about sour cream returned Roll to reality, and he jumped off the windowsill, went to his bowl and refreshed himself with appetite. And when Erica came home from school or her grandmother came back from the market, they would certainly take the cat in her arms, scratching her tummy and back. The girl or grandmother was reading some book at that time, and the kitten, under the rustle of pages, studied letters and words with interest, and it even began to seem to him that he, too, could already read. This is how the kitten learned about life and the world.