But the tom cat went ahead and came to a large grass field, where over a hundred people were making hay. "Who does this grass field belong to, you people?" said the tom cat. - "The great magician." - "Listen, the king will soon drive by, when he asks, who the grass field belongs to, so answer: the Grafen; and if you do not do that, you will all be struck dead." Thereon the tom cat went further and came to a grain field, so large, that no one could oversee it, there stood more than two hundred people and cut the grain. "Who's grain is this you people?" - "The magician." - "Listen, the king will drive by now, when he asks, who the grain belongs to, so answer: the Grafen; and if you do not do that, vou will all be struck dead." - Finally the tom cat came to a magnificent forest, there stood more than three hundred people, felled the big oaks and made wood. - "Who's forest is this, you people?" - "The magician." - "Listen, the king will drive by now, when he asks, who the forest belongs to so answer: the Grafen; and if you do not do that, you will all be killed." The tom cat went still furlher, the people all looked after him, and because he looked so wonderly, and as a human walked in the boots, they were afraid of him. He soon came to the magicians palace, stepped boldly in and in front of him. The magician looked at him contemptuously, and asked him, what he wanted. The tom cat made a Reverenz and said: "I have beard, that vou could transform yourself into every animal you chose by your own will; what a hound, fox, or even wolf concerns, that I will well believe, but of an elephant, that seems to me quite impossible, and therefore I have come to convince myself." The magician said proudly: "That is a trifle to me," and in that wink-of-an-eye was transformed into an elephant. "That is much, but also in a lion?" - "That is also nothing," said the magician and stood as a lion in front of the tom cat. The tom cat made as if startled, and cried: "That is unbelievable and unheard of, the same I would never had dreamt of coming into my thoughts; but more still, all else, it would be, if you could transform yourself into such a small animal, as a mouse is, you can certainly do more, than any other magician in the world, but that will be certainly too high for you. The magician was very friendly from the sweet words and said: "O'ja, dear cat-let, that I can also," and sprang as a mouse around the room. The tom cat was after him, caught the mouse with one jump and ate him up.

Men Tomkatten gik i forvejen og kom til en stor græsmark, hvor over hundrede mennesker lavede hø. "Hvem tilhører denne græsmark, I mennesker?" sagde Tomkatten. - "Den store tryllekunstner." - "Hør, kongen kører snart forbi, når han spørger, hvem græsmarken tilhører, så svar: Grafen; og gør I ikke det, bliver I alle sammen slået ihjel." Derpå gik tomkatten videre og kom til en kornmark, så stor, at ingen kunne overskue den, der stod mere end to hundrede mennesker og skar kornet. "Hvem er korn er det her?" - "Tryllekunstneren." - "Hør, kongen vil køre forbi nu, når han spørger, hvem kornet tilhører, så svar: Grafen; og gør du det ikke, bliver du alle sammen slået ihjel." - Endelig kom Tommekatten til en storslået Skov, der stod mere end tre hundrede Mennesker, fældede de store Ege og lavede Træ. - "Hvem er skoven, I folk?" - "Tryllekunstneren." - "Hør, kongen vil køre forbi nu, når han spørger, hvem skoven tilhører, så svar: Grafen; og gør I det ikke, bliver I alle dræbt." Tomkatten gik endnu længere, folkene så efter ham, og fordi han så så vidunderligt ud, og som et menneske gik i støvlerne, var de bange for ham. Han kom snart til magikernes palads, trådte dristigt ind og foran ham.Magikeren så foragtende på ham og spurgte ham, hvad han ville. Tomkatten lavede en Reverenz og sagde: "Jeg har skæg, at du kunne forvandle dig til ethvert dyr, du valgte efter din egen vilje; hvilken hund, ræv eller endda ulv bekymrer sig, det vil jeg godt tro, men om en elefant , det forekommer mig ganske umuligt, og derfor er jeg kommet til at overbevise mig selv." Tryllekunstneren sagde stolt: "Det er en bagatel for mig," og i det blink blev forvandlet til en elefant. "Det er meget, men også i en løve?" - "Det er heller ingenting," sagde tryllekunstneren og stillede sig som en løve foran tomkatten. Tomkatten gjorde som forskrækket og råbte: "Det er utroligt og uhørt, det samme ville jeg aldrig have drømt om at komme ind i mine tanker; men endnu mere, alt andet ville det være, hvis du kunne forvandle dig til sådan en et lille dyr, som en mus er, kan du sikkert mere end nogen anden tryllekunstner i verden, men det bliver helt sikkert for højt for dig. Tryllekunstneren var meget venlig af de søde ord og sagde: "O'ja, kære kat-lad, det kan jeg også," og sprang som en mus rundt i stuen. Tomkatten var efter ham, fangede musen med ét hop og åd ham op.