Whittington and his Cat

Dick Whittington and His Cat is an English folk tale included in Fifty Famous Stories Retold. It tells of a poor boy living in the 14th century. He has a cat with extraordinary ratting abilities. Both boy and the cat are about to make to the top of their lives. The character of the boy is named after a real-life person, Richard Whittington, but the real Whittington did not come from a poor family and there is no evidence that he had a cat.