The old man and the naughty cat

The old man loved birds and kept many birds that he had collected and saved when sick, he kept them in little cages on his terrace. The birds all got fat and sang happily each day. The old man would open the cages and try and get them to fly away, but they loved the old man and wanted to stay.

The old man would sing and whistle as he cleaned his courtyard and birds would sing along, it was a happy place. The old man lived alone, he had lost his wife and his children lived very far away, in other countries, and the birds had become his most precious friends.