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this where the guards looked?” This question did not leave the mouth of the forest community. “Valerian infusion is forbidden in the Wonderful Green Forest. Everyone knows what drunken wild cats are capable of! What do we pay our taxes for? Disturbances were experienced in every herd. Predators cannot provide us with security and order on the paths. Where did the birds look, if anyone can bring this poison to our forest? Smuggling Valerian! Where does this world go? But what about the vaunted custom of birds to check every traveler on the border and look for violations from a bird’s-eye view?”

      The wolves and falcons who served as guards in the Wonderful Green Forest had only to clank their teeth and click their beaks when they heard these disturbances.

      So, the March cat, named Sigalt, three days before the election, brought valerian infusion and smuggled it in. After that, he imagined himself, at least, a tiger, and ran along all the forest paths with shouts: “I am a terrible Sigalt cat. My tail is the best tail in the world! It works like a compass, wherever I want, I twist there, and I can predict the weather. And if I want, I will send you hail and a fierce wind.”

      The behaviour of the cat did not fit into any stereotype. This wild cat molested all the ladies and fought with a ferret who stood up for his wife. Sigalt punched him in the face. The ferret did not dodge, fell from the tree, and the cat continued to pester the lady. He tried to give her valerian infusion. He promised to take her on a paradise trip to Oceania.

      When the guards, wolves and falcons tried to arrest him, he showed the wonders of gymnastics, with the cat’s ease he eluded their nets.

      The cat violated all existing prohibitions in the wonderful green forest and almost ripped off the election, mentioning its tail, be it damned.

      Such a disgrace has not been since the times of the great opposition between predators and herbivores. To solve this confrontation, the elk proposed to solve the ‘food question’ between predators and herbivores in a peaceful way. For which he was unanimously elected the first elk-leader.

      He proposed to introduce food taxes for herbivores. From now on, every herd handed over milk, and birds discarded eggs, people baked cakes. These products were shared by the inhabitants of the forest. The bees could barter honey. (It was considered a special delicacy since all the animals had a sweet tooth.)

      Pie, eggs and milk were transmitted to predators. For this, the carnivores did not touch anyone in the Wonderful Green Forest, guarding its borders and internal order. In order to satisfy their hunting instincts, each predator, on reaching the age of majority, received a hunting license from the leader moose.

      It was possible to hunt only in the forest thicket beyond the black line. Who lived there no one knew. The predators kept silence, but other animals noticed that sometimes not all wolves returned from hunting, and some on their return sat in holes and healed wounds. Doctor Owl has seen many such wounds but he also kept silence.

      It was rumoured, that one of the hares saw something in the thicket behind the black line, but he was famous for his foes, and as they say: “Fear has large eyes, and the fearful hare is even more so.” In general, no one believed the hare’s assurances that terrible monsters live in the thicket. You never know that he dreamed of fear.

      So, the March cat was not caught and put under arrest. Definitely, good luck on that day was on the side of the cat, as if they were drinking the infusion of valerian, and not the cat. The forest society watched the whole day, as the cat Sigalt deftly left the chase, while still having time to sing bawdy songs about the forest guards; hint to the inhabitants of the forest that it is necessary to elect him as the main guardian of order, as if he alone is worth all of them.

      Wolves and falcons, already, roared from such insults. Together, they drove the cat into a trap. While he was being led to the place of arrest, he shouted to the ferret’s wife that he would return for her and steal her, because he was in love and ready to marry, which he admired the romantic ladies.

      At night, he undermined and escaped from arrest. It was again rumoured that the fox had helped him to hide the truth about Valerian smuggling.

      Sigalt

      In the morning, the ferret, on the shutters of his house, saw a paw print of a cat and a rose with a pinned note: “I will love you forever…”

      The ferret’s wife was flattered by such attention from the romantic, rebel and hero – the March cat. For a whole morning, she sighed on the porch and looked at the rose.

      She was secretly envied by other ladies who did not have such romantic and brave admirers.

      The ferret went with the complaint to the authorities, as the injured party, demanding compensation for moral damage. He did not get to the authorities, because the ferret clan decided to stop its attempts to raise this issue before the elections.

      The ferrets were afraid to run into the fox, so they locked the ‘injured’ ferret in his house and gave him soothing herbs, reminding the ferret of his duty and duties to the clan. And it was also known from reliable sources (this version was distributed by the gossip magpie) that the March cat left the territory of the Wonderful Green Forest by a secret path. I wonder who showed him this secret path? Inflate the international scandal ferret clan afraid.

      The whole forest was buzzing with news. The guards could not find the March cat, which again caused public discontent. In this turmoil, flew three days before the election.

      The Election Day of the most useful society’s tail

      The elections were prepared thoroughly. On the clearing near the lake, they set up stands with benches. Each campaign headquarters was supposed to nominate one candidate from its clan. The commission headed by the elk-leader monitored the observance of order. Guests from other countries came to the Wonderful Green Forest. A dragon arrived from the country of the Flying Rocks, an octopus was expelled from Oceania. Many animals and birds were interested in the ‘tail question’.

      The clear favourites to win were clan foxes. The Foxes, taking advantage of their position, organised their own fan club and occupied the right tribune. From this rostrum came laughter, witty jokes. Foxes clearly celebrated the coming victory and the shame of the clan of squirrels.

      Squirrels gloomy and sad sat on the left podium. Their hopes of victory melted away every minute. Khronos rejected all their pleas, although they failed to hint at the usefulness of their tail, to find out something.

      Many squirrels took with themselves smelling salts, the most impressionable got the poison of fire toads, so that if they lost, they would be poisoned before everyone’s eyes, just not to see their shame.

      Poisonous toads, who traded their poison for strawberries, were not fools either. They gave out the expired poison, realising that the squirrels in the tail of the tail are capable of everything, and who then needs these proceedings with the authorities if the squirrels lose. By and large, the toads did not believe in the victory of the squirrels and slipped them inactive poison. Squirrels did not understand poisons.

      The central rostrum was occupied by animals who do not take part in the elections, and people who, as we know, have no tail. The election commission consisted of a herd of elks who also did not participate in the elections.

      The election rules were as follows: a candidate for ‘the most useful tail for society’ made a speech, then he demonstrated the benefit of his tail. The commission followed the rules. The central tribune voted, and people counted votes. Thus, the animals observed honesty and truthfulness of calculations.

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