"The Cat Who Sang."

A late comic tale, in which a overworked teacher hallucinates that his black cat Susie is able to sing Schubert's "Trout" theme (which however is rendered inaccurately, both in notes and rhythm, in the musical notation appearing in the story). While neither his vet or his fiancee can hear anything more than "unbottled echoes of distant caterwaulings on cold moonlight nights," another young woman catches a husband with a more favorable response and by dying her hair jet black. In Argosy (June 1963), The Fabulous Mrs V (1964).

ID: 
b283
Title: 
"The Cat Who Sang."
Genre: 
Story
Page Count: 
12
Word Count: 
ca. 3900
Publisher: 
Argosy
Year of Publication: 
1963
Topic: 
Music
Pets
Document Type: 
Comic Fiction