P2

	Of course, as you know, all cats love fish, and Junior was no exception! (He thought whales were very large fish!) He really loved fish -- fresh, fried, or broiled, and he turn up his nose at canned fish either! Actually-he was a glutton! He had heard that whale meat was delicious, and he dreamed of having a chance to taste it. Imagine-how many cans of whale meat could you get from one whale? A hundred? A thousand? Or many more, too numerous for even him to eat? With that many cans he could feast for a whole year and have plenty left to share with his friends. Sad to say, there are still some people who like to eat whale meat, but nobody had ever given the cat any. Therefore he had made up his mind to go on a whale watching ship to catch a whale! That is how he ended up on this ship.   He had heard that this rather large ship used to be a whaling ship that sailed the seas of the world searching for whales to catch-going as far as the freezing Antarctic waters at the bottom of the world. The seas used to be teeming with whales, but humans had caught so many whales, that there are very few left in the oceans. Therefore this ship was no longer a whale-catching ship, but a whale watching ship for tourists.