After a few months time, Mungo and Teazer had gone through every regimen Kitty would throw their way. When their training was completed, Kitty looked at both of them.
"I have a task for you two," she told them.
They looked at her, left eyebrows arched.
"After I've trained a new group---like you two---I give them the opportunity to train others on their own," Kitty informed them with a grin. "You can each select two of your fellow cats as trainees. But, there must be one tomcat and one queen. So, that means that there will be four new Cats in training."
Kitty turned and went away, leaving the duo alone to think over what she had told them.
"We can´t take four kittens," Mungo said. "Much as they'd all like to come, no doubt…"
"Maybe one kitten, but no more. Say… how's about taking Coricopat and Tantomile?" Teazer suggested. "They've always loved doing stuff like this…"
Mungo nodded, then looked over at his sister, and grinned cleverly. "And to our everlasting joy, I think we should select Alonzo," Mungo said.
"Now for the last cat of our group. She's got to be a female, though," Mungo added, thinking.
"All right. How about Cassandra?" Rumpel asked.
"Teazer, what… are you crazy?" Mungo asked, incredulously. "After all those times Kitty's showed us that film of hers, I would of thought you'd know just what she thinks of Cass?"
Rumpel nodded reluctantly, and thought for a long while. "Hmm. Well… what about Etcetera?" she asked, obviously grasping for an acceptable candidate.
Mungojerrie thought about that choice, walking back and forth, rubbbing his chin. Finally, he nodded. "All right, Etcetera it is," Mungo said.
"Okay, let´s see now," Rumpel said, obviously thinking hard. "You can train the twins, while I teach Alonzo and Etci. How's that sound, brother?"
"Sounds just right to me. You've got yourself a deal!" Mungo said, and the siblings sealed the deal by shaking paws.
Meanwhile, back at the junkjard, everything was pretty much normal. Alonzo and Munkustrap guarded the area, looking out for humans or pollicles. The Kittens where playing tag, and the adults were talking about this and that.
A strange sound made everyone go still and watchful. Numerous feline ears caught what was unmistakably a jazzy tune, and then saw two very familiar felines dropped down from the sky and began to sing along with that song…
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
We're a notorious couple of cats.
As knockabout clowns,
quick-change comedians,
tight-rope walkers and acrobats.
We have an extensive reputation,
We make our home in Victoria Grove.
This is merely our centre of operation
For we are incurably given to rove.
We are very well known in Cornwall Gardens,
In Launceston Place
and in Kensington Square.
We have really a little more reputation
than a couple of cats can very well bare.
If the area window is found ajar
And the basement looks like a field of war.
If a tile or two comes loose on the roof,
(Which presently fails to be waterproof)
If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chest
and you can't find one of your winter vests,
If after supper, one of the girls
Suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls,
The family will say, "It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"
And most of the time they leave it at that.
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
Have a very unusual gift of the gab,
We are highly efficient cat burglars as well
And remarkably smart at a smash and grab.
We make our home in Victoria Grove
We have no regular occupation
We are plausible fellows
Who like to engage a friendly policeman in conversation.
When the family assembles for Sunday dinner
With their minds made up that they won't get thinner,
On Argentine joint, potatoes and greens,
And the cook will appear from behind the scenes
And say in a voice that is broken with sorrow,
"I'm afraid you must wait and have dinner tomorrow!
For the joint has gone from the oven like that!"
The family will say,
"It's that horrible cat!
It was Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer!"
And most of the time they leave it at that.
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
have a wonderful way of working together,
And some of the time you would say it was luck,
And some of the time you would say it was weather.
We go through the house like a hurricane,
and no sober person could take his oath:
Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpelteazer?
Or could you have sworn that it mightn't be both?
And when you hear a dining room smash
Or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash,
Or down from the library there comes a loud ping
From a vase that was commonly said to be Ming.
The family will say: "Now which was which cat?
It was Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer!"
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!
Every cat stared in amazement.
"What?" Mungo asked in exasperation. "Have we gotten food stuck between our teeth or something?"
Then the kittens howled with happiness and ran to Mungo and Teazer to hug them tightly.
"Would you look at that, Teaz… they have missed us both," Mungo said with a devilish grin.
"What are you doing here?" Misto asked.
"Well,
we've completed our training, you see. So, Kitty has asked us to
invite four of you all with us to her world so we can train you lucky
four up,"
Mungo said. "Now…"
"Which four of us, Mungo?" Munku asked. He was intrigued, of course, but still suspicious.
"Well, Mungo and I… we've given that question a lot of thought. And, these are the four we've selected: Alonzo, Etcetera, Coricopat and Tantomile," Rumpel said.
The three adults Cats swallowed hard, but complied, curious despite their fears.
However, Ectetera looked at Mungo and asked, "Cool! So we're all going to come with you?"
Mungo, as well as his sister, nodded and smiled. And then… after lots of hugging and pawshaking (it was the custom, you see), Mungo and Teazer, as well as their charges, the four new Cats, were on their way…