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    Pagliaccio the Opera Cat
    Pagliaccio the Opera Cat
    Pagliaccio the Opera Cat
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    Pagliaccio the Opera Cat

    By AM Kirkby

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    Pagliaccio lives in an operatic household, but he has no musical talent - he tries hard, but he can't sing, or compose, or play piano. But in the end, he does discover that he has one crucial talent - and turns a potentially disastrous first night into a triumph.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAM Kirkby
    Release dateMay 14, 2011
    ISBN9781458060327
    Pagliaccio the Opera Cat
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    AM Kirkby

    A M Kirkby writes a wide range of fiction, including fantasy, SF and historical novels and short stories.

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      Pagliaccio the Opera Cat - AM Kirkby

      Pagliaccio the Opera Cat

      by A M Kirkby

      Published by A M Kirkby at Smashwords

      Text Copyright © 2011 A M Kirkby

      All Rights Reserved

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, events, and locations are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons or events, living or dead, are entirely coincidental.

      This file is licensed for private individual entertainment only. The book contained herein constitutes a copyrighted work and may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into an information retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means (electrical, mechanical, photographic, audio recording, or otherwise) for any reason (excepting the uses permitted to the licensee by copyright law under terms of fair use) without the specific written permission of the author.

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      For Mr Telford, my lovely little black cat.

      Pagliaccio the Opera Cat

      by A M Kirkby

      Chapter 1

      Pagliaccio. That's not an easy name for a cat, even if you're Italian, which he was. But cats need names which suit them, and that name suited him very well indeed.

      Pah-lyee-atch-tcho. That's how you say it. It means 'clown' in Italian. Pagliaccio was a white cat, with little black circles round his eyes and a big black smudge on his nose, and a grey tabby tail, and everyone always thought he looked like a clown. That's why he had such a funny name.

      And he was an opera cat. He might have been born in an alleyway and lived in the gutter, but now he lived with Giuseppe and Giuseppina in an expensive flat in the middle of Milan, and followed his master over the road to his work in the opera house almost every day. (Not quite every day, because cats like to keep their human companions guessing. Pagliaccio knew he should never become predictable.)

      Giuseppe was an immensely dignified man with huge white whiskers (which Pagliaccio rather envied) and an aquiline nose, but there was one thing he could never get right - his hair always

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