At the “carpet” of autumn (2/10)

According to an ancient legend, the mythical “biblical patriarch” Noah rescued himself from the “sacred flood” of himself and his family as well as all the animals by hiding in a Noah’s Ark a pair of any animal species, thus becoming “the originator” of the new human race and saved from dying the animal kingdom. Unfortunately, Noah failed to put cats in the coffin because he did not know them. This has led to the immense multiplication of mice and rats that have begun to destroy food supplies in the coffin. Then Noah “asked” the king of the animals – the lion, to help. The lion responded to the request, sneezing, and a pair of animals, which were his miniature copies, sprang from his two nostrils. These were cats that immediately took up the extinction of numerous mice and rats, greatly reducing their numbers. The other living rodents so frightened that they sprawled on the holes and then lived there.