Mrs. Rat has a beautiful daughter old enough to marry. Each suitor is asked by Mrs. Rat to show his skill in making her farm, and in turn each suitor is found fault with and sent off. Mr. Cat comes, and works so fast, he soon has made a fine farm. Mrs. Rat is so pleased, that she gives her daughter to Mr. Cat. Miss Rat tells her husband that she would like him better were he to shorten his teeth. He hastens to file them down. "You have filed them too short," says his wife. "I like you no better than I did before." In anger Mr. Cat jumps upon her and kills her. Since then cats kill rats, even when they don’t want them for food.