THE CAT AND THE MOUSE


TIME: _perhaps this minute_.
PLACE: _perhaps your own garret_.

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MOTHER MOUSE.
HER DAUGHTER, MISS MOUSE.
THE CAT.

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[MOTHER MOUSE _and_ MISS MOUSE _are in their spare room because Mother
Mouse is getting ready for a journey. Miss Mouse helps her. The_ CAT _is
outside, peeping now and then through the window, but so slyly that the
mice do not see her._]

MOTHER MOUSE (_going_). Now mind you keep one eye on our grease-pot, child.

MISS MOUSE. That I will, dear mother!

MOTHER MOUSE. Let no one in,--no one! no one!

MISS MOUSE. No one, dear mother!