the last fat cat, i promise

statens museum for kunst/national gallery of denmark, inventory #KKS6916.  (PD)

I ate rum-soaked butter cake for breakfast, so. . . 

Now, I can't be the only one who has fellow-feeling for the glutton cat in Niels Skovgaard's illustration.  The cheerful soul poking him is the parson, whom the story describes as carrying a crooked staff.  Parsons seem to pop up in the same broad-brimmed hat and sensible outwear whenever one spots them in art and literature, so that was easy.