head-cat

Updated: June 7, 2025

"The world seems to be larger than the village," he said. "I will walk on and see what there is in it." He washed himself all over, curled his tail proudly up in the air, cocked the only ear he had left, and set off walking under the forest trees. "I was the head-cat in the village," says he to himself. "If all goes well, I shall be head here too."

Arthur Ransome - Old Peter's Russian Tales