The Christmas Cat

The Christmas Cat is the second story in Masters In This Hall, the 2015 Christmas anthology by Anne B. Walsh. The frame story sets it in the Chronicles of Glenscar, as a prequel to ''A Widow In Waiting. ''Edwin and Anthea Marlowe tell the tale of The Christmas Cat to their children, to ease their boredom.

The Christmas Cat was one of the animals who welcomed the baby Jesus at his birth, but on the way to meet the newborn King, she thought hard about what gift she might bring. As a cousin of the King of Beasts, it would not do to arrive empty-pawed, after all...