When the spotted cat first found the nest, there was nothing in it, for it was only just finished. So she sald, "I will walt!" for she was a patient cat, and the summer was before her. She
waited a week, and then she climbed up again to the top of the tree, and peeped into the nest. There lay two ovely blue eggs, smooth and shining.
The spotted cat said, "Eggs may be good, but young birds are better. will wait." So she waited; and while she was waiting, she caught mice and rats, and washed herself and slept,
and did all that a spotted cat should do to pass the time away.
When another week had passed, she climbed the tree again and peeped into the nest. This time there were five eggs. But the spotted cat sald again, "Eggs may be good, but young
birds are better. I wait a little longer!*
So she waited a little longer and then went up again to look. Ahl there were five tiny birds, with big eyes and long necks, and yellow beaks wide open. Then the spotted cat sat down (
the branch, and licked her nose and purred, for she was very happy, "It is worthwhile to be patient!" she sald.
But when she looked again at the young to birds, to see which one she should take first, she saw that they were very thin,oh, very, very thin they were! The spotted cat had never seen
anything so thin in her life.
"Now," she said to herself, *if I were to wait only : few days longer, they would grow fat. Thin birds may be good, but fat birds are much better. I will wait!"
So she waited; and she watched the father-bird bringing worms all day long to the nest, and sald, "Aha! they must be fattening fastl they will soon be as fat as I wish them to be. Aha!
what a good thing it is to be patient.*
At last, one day she thought, "Surely, now they must be fat enough! I will not wait another day. Aha! how good they vill be!"
So she climbed up the tree, licking her chops all the way and thinking of the fat young birds. And when she reached the top and looked into the nest, it was emptyl!
Then the spotted cat sat down on the branch and spoke thus, "Well, of all the horrid, mean, ungrateful creatures I ever saw, those birds are the horridest, and the meanest, and the
most ungratefull MI-a-U-ow!!!!"
Based on "The Patient Cat" as a whole, what type of character is the protagonist