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A mother to be cat is abandoned on the street. That is it. That is what started the book The Underneath. It is about a cat who has babies when it is abandoned on the road and needs to find shelter, and fast. No animal can have babies on the side of a dusty gravel road surrounded by woodland! So she walks and walks until she reaches a little home with a big porch. There is a bloodhound living there, with his owner. The bloodhound has a thick chain tightly tied around his neck but allows her to rest there, and the cat gives birth. But she has nowhere to take the newborns. And the bloodhound has been lonley for so much time that the cat lives there with her kittens. But there is one thing. The kitten's home is underneath the porch and they nust NOT venture out . THEY MUST NOT. You see, the bloodhound's owner is a cruel, cold hearted man who has lived a long bad life. His nick name is Gar face. So the kittens do not venture out of the porch until.....! Mean while, the is a creature stirring in a jar in the tangled roots of a tree. This story also contains a 100 hundred foot long alliagtor. Gar face is trying to caputure the alligator but the he is just a bit smarter than Gar face...
Read the book The Underneath!