They All Saw a Cat

By Brendan Wenzel
Lexile:  310
Genre:  Realistic Fiction

A cat goes for a walk and along the way it sees a lot of things.  Each thing that crosses the cat's path, sees the cat differently than the thing before it.  And then the cat gets to the water and what does he see there?  They all saw a cat!

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