How he loved the sound of his own voice!
Meena and Mridu exchanged looks.
"What does that have to do with anything?"
Mridu demanded.
"Huh! I'm telling you this cat is descended...
from the Egyptian cat-god... no, goddess! Bastet!
Ya! That's it!”
"So?”
"Well, one of the descendants of that cat-goddess
was a stowaway in one of the Pallava ships, andhis
descendant was the Mahabalipuram Rishi-Cat,jo
whose descendant is -- " Ravi flourished his twig at
Mahendran“_ M.P. Poonai here... whoop EEK!” he
shrieked, very pleased with himself.
Mahendran looked up, alarmed. He had just
been sharpening his claws on the edge of the
coconut shell. But worse than Ravi's awful
whoop EEK was a 'Kreech...!' from the window.
What a weird sound! If Mridu was startled,
M.P. Poonai was frightened out of his wits.
Hair standing on end, he bounced up and
scurried towards a bamboo tray of red chillies
that had been set out to dry. Trying to hide
beneath it, he tipped a few chillies over himself.
“Mi-a-aw!” he howled miserably.
The 'kreeching' went on and on. "What's that
noise?” said Mridu.
“That's Lalli learning to play the violin,"
grunted Ravi.
"She'll never learn a thing. The music-
master just goes on playing like a train
whizzing on and on, while Lalli's all the time
derailing! Going completely off track!"
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Explanation:
"He has been coming here every day for the past week, and it's time he found another house to beg from!" Paati explained to Tapi. Mridu and Meena followed Ravi out. The beggar was already in the garden, making himself quite at home. He had spread his upper cloth under the neer tree, and was leaning against its trunk, apparently prepared to take a little snooze while he waited for the alms to appear. "Go away!" said Ravi sternly. "My Paati says it's time you found another house to beg from!" The beggar opened his eyes very wide and gazed at each of the children one by one. "The ladies of this house," he said, at last, in a voice choked with feeling, "are very kind souls. I have kept my body and soul together on their aonerecitu for a whole weekk Lcannet