Samson, a big black fat cat, lay across a mat pretending to be asleep with one eye looking right at the hole in the wall where five rats lived. The rats wanted to get away from the cat but were scared to make a move. When a man who entered the house dropped his hat on the floor, the rats knew that they had a chance to get away from the cat. All of them hid under the hat and started moving towards the open door. The cat spotted the hat moving and started walking towards it. But as luck would have it, a sudden gust of wind tipped the hat over, and the rats fell into it. The wind blew the hat into the pond where it floated. Samson was angry because he couldn't swim. That's how the rats escaped from the wrath of the big black fat cat.