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Figaro here; Figaro, there, I tell you! Figaro upstairs, Figaro downstairs. This is little Figaro. He's a cat of world. Smart, cosmopolitan and sophisticated. And he heard a voice. Hey Puss! Puss, there! "At your service, sir!" Up to my balcony young puss. He makes acrobatic tricks. His air tricks gets applause. The young man offers him a sandwich. He becomes the man’s valet helping him in schemes of moneymaking and love.
Figaro and young man (his master) are both clever daredevils and they work together cheat on the game saloon and seduce women. Puss served him well. They never went hungry.
One day the master falls in love.The object of his desire is a young woman. A princess in a tower. Remote and shining as Aldebaran. Chained to a dolt and dragon guarded. There is a lady sits in a window for one hour in a day. When she goes out to Mass she has to wear a veil. The master had fallen in love at only a glimpse of the young woman’s face. Figaro must describe it. Saturday night the cat and his master stayed up so late that they were coming home as people were going to church and Puss rubbed up against the young woman’s leg. She briefly petted him and lifted her veil and at the sight of her smile the master fell in love. Hag sneezed at Figaro’s presence however and quickly bustled the young woman away.
Figaro describes the many women his master has slept but the master has never said love until now. The master now seems sick and lives only for Sunday mornings. Until master saw the wife of Signor Panteleone as she went walking out to Mass and she lifted up her veil though not for him.
Figaro finds Signor Panteleone’s cat, a female tabby who informs him that Panteleone is miserly and impotent and guards his kind young wife like he does his fortune. He leaves the house one day a week to go cheat the poor out of their rent but the hag is always at home and allergic to cats. Tabby promises to deliver a letter to her mistress, though, if Figaro’s master will write one. The master spends three hours laboring over a perfect love letter ten pages long and the tabby delivers it, informing Figaro that her mistress wept over it and promised to love its writer unless he was old or ugly as sin. The woman sends a return letter asking to meet and discuss his passion further. The master kisses her letter ecstatically and decides to serenade her that night when she looks out the window. Figaro and his master go off to the piazza with a guitar and the master plays under the young woman’s window but she doesn’t notice. The master sends Figaro up to get her attention. Figaro notices that the tabby is watching him and he performs some difficult acrobatics on his way up and then tells the young woman to look below. On his way back down Figaro lands the death defying triple somersault, impressing the tabby.
The master starts to sing a heartfelt song and the young woman looks down. She smiles for just a moment but then the hag slams the window shut. That night Figaro and his master have little to eat but the master is overjoyed at his success. After he falls asleep Figaro sneaks off to meet with the tabby who comes up with a plan to unite the two young lovers. The tabby will catch some rats and scatter them about the house and the master and Figaro will wait outside posing as rat catchers. The hag hates rats so when she sees them she will go out into the street and immediately hire the duo and bring them inside. The master is excited by this plan and agrees to it. He puts on a fake moustache and makes a sign as Signor Furioso, the living death of rats. He has to turn away several attempted customers before the hag appears, screaming. She immediately ushers the two inside, sneezing at Figaro and saying the rats are in her mistress’s room. They all go into the young woman’s room and the master pretends there is a big hole in the floor under the bed. The young woman sends the terrified hag away promising to guard her possessions. As soon as the hag leaves, the young woman locks the door and the master removes his moustache. They approach each other shyly at first but then start having sex, and Figaro yowls to cover up the noise. The suspicious hag comes in just after they are finished and to explain the rumpled bed and virginal blood the young woman says Puss killed a big rat in the bed. The woman then asks the fee for the master’s services and Figaro says a hundred ducats. The hag complains about this but the young woman tells her to pay with the money she’s skimmed off the housekeeping.
Figaro and his master leave with their pockets full but at dinner the master is still dissatisfied as he wants the young woman to be his forever. Figaro sees that his plan hasn’t worked – the master hasn’t gotten over his love by having sex – and he grows bored at the master’s dramatics, but resolves to help him with his cunning. Figaro goes out to meet the tabby, who he is rapidly falling in love with himself and asks her about the details of Signor Panteleone’s routine. Tabby says that Signor Panteleone spends his days counting his money and cheating the poor and his nights guarding with his prize possession of a wife though he is impotent. He is rich as Croesus and the two cats come up with a plan to take his fortune and wife. Tabby will trip him so that he falls and dies. Figaro returns home and tells his master to purchase a doctor’s outfit and make another sign. The master asks about the plan but Figaro doesn’t reveal the details. The next morning the two go out in the street and again the master has to turn away customers as he waits. Soon the hag comes bursting out the door, telling the doctor that her master has taken a fall. They go inside and see Signor Panteleone dead at the foot of the stairs. The master confirms his death and they carry Panteleone up to the young woman’s room and put him on the bed. The young woman then sends the hag away promising her some money from Panteleone’s will.The hag rushes off excitedly and immediately the young lovers are at it hammer and tongs having sex on the carpet while the dead Panteleone is still on the bed. Meanwhile Figaro opens all the windows and then the tabby comes in looking pregnant. Figaro decides then to give up his rambling days and settle down with the tabby.
The hag returns with an undertaker as the master and the young woman are still occupied. The hag shrieks in rage but the young woman sends her away, promising her some gold and informing her that the master will be her new husband. When the hag learns she will indeed inherit some money she immediately goes off quietly. The master and the young woman then inherit the rest of Panteleone’s fortune and get married and the tabby and Figaro have a litter of kittens.

What is the title of the story?
- Puss in Boots
Who wrote the story?
-unknown
Who are the main characters?
-Figaro and His Master
When and where does the story take place?
-The time is complex. we knows about some days at night, in daylight, Saturday and Sunday.
-We have a lot of place. Game saloons, in towers, in church, in city, in house and room and bed.

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