The Cat Carousel span around and around in the haze that was mounting beneath the canopy of the burnt oak.
Most of the cats were behaving themselves and stayed on the ride just as they had been told by the Man with the Nehru Collar, but Tabitha and Barabas had jumped off as soon as his back was turned.
Running in the shadow of the oak, they whooped and kicked up an unholy mess in the leaves, not caring one iota that the Man with the Nehru Collar would skin them alive when he discovered his rules had been broken.
