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THE CAT, Chapter XIX
Cetan and Tama gathered leaves into the sunset, only stopping from making their runs back and forth to the fire in order to eat what fish the women had cooked. There were no meal times. They ate when they had food until they were full and then saved what they could to...![THE CAT, Chapter XVIII](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/50250.jpg)
THE CAT, Chapter XVIII
The boy laid down to rest near the very back of the lean-to, gathering some leaves the two adult women had somehow strung together to act as a covering for sleep. There was no warmth in laying under the leaves, however, certainly nothing like luxuriating under a...![THE CAT, Chapter XVII.](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/na_cooking.jpg)
THE CAT, Chapter XVII.
The return to their encampment took much longer than the trip out. The body of the animal suspended between them was heavy and ungainly. They could not travel too fast across the forest floor because the hanging body would begin to swing to the point where they could...![THE CAT, Chapter XIII](https://jamesstrauss.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/puma-sleeping-rocks.jpg)