The Mousehole cat

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A cat named Mowzer lived in the fishing village of Mousehole with an old fisherman. One day a terrible Great Storm-Cat bottled up the harbor, a harbor open to the sea with just the smallest of mousehole shaped openings. It is up to the cat and the old fisherman to save the village from starvation.

Her (Mowzer's) eldest son kept the inn on the quayside. It was noisy and smoky and his man had once spilled beer on Mowzer's head as he was drawing a pint.

So she did not go there very often.