Hour after hour crept along, like a little mouse after a bit of cheese, and still the rabbit slumbered, and still the bluebell nodded her drowsy head, for she would not go to sleep while she was keeping watch.
So with his long, sharp tusks he made a tunnel right through the mountain, and, though it was a bit darkish, he and the rabbit went through it as easily as a mouse can nibble a bit of cheese.
You know very well we didn't mean it, and I don't believe Miss Mouse minds.
I wonder if it's true about Miss Mouse coming to have lessons with Miss Ward?
Miss Mouse asked for us--to make up, you know, for our not going with you on Saturday.
Miss Mouse was a careful little person; she kept her money in a tiny cash-box, and only took out what she needed to use.
Hec and Ger met them on their way in with the news that Aunt Mattie had come for Miss Mouse and that schoolroom tea was quite ready.
He started at a good pace, and as Miss Mouse trotted in the opposite direction, from time to time she looked over her shoulder, till the ever-lessening black speck that she knew to be Bob had altogether melted into the gloom.
The maid who waited on her was not in Rosamond's own room when she went upstairs, so Miss Mouse contented herself with taking off her hat and jacket, keeping on her boots to be ready for her expedition to meet Bob.
A mouse did the same thing by creeping along an hour-marked cornice.
It was the cat again that has stricken down a mouse standing perfectly careless till the unfortunate little animal begins to stir.
The Singhalese believe it and themouse to be liable to hydrophobia.
Footnote 7: There is a rat found only in the Cinnamon Gardens at Colombo, Mus Ceylonus, Kelaart; and a mousewhich Dr.
The chief sentimental memory of Bingen is unquestionably the legend of Bishop Hatto and his "Mouse Tower on the Rhine.
Illustration: Bishop Hatto's Mouse Tower] Opposite Ehrenfels is Bingen, with its Maeuseturm.
Despairing, she threw herself into the Rhine, and her body floated down-stream as far as Bishop Hatto's Mouse Tower, at Bingen.
The legend of Hatto, versified by Southey, has stamped the memory of the Mouse Tower and its associations so indelibly upon the mind that it overshadows in interest all else in the vicinity.
I don't remember whether I said mouse or dog entrails.
But who will go, who will undertake it, since Hmelnitski has so possessed every road and exit that a mouse could not squeeze through from the camp?
A mouse could not have passed through unobserved, and what could a man as bulky as Zagloba do?
It said ‘And oo may live to say ‘How much I wiss I had the Mouse that then I frew away!
A needle dangled by his side; A dapper mouse he used to ride, Thus strutted Tom in stately pride!
TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse both lived in a house, Titty Mouse went a leasing and Tatty Mouse went a leasing, So they both went a leasing.
So the mouse stole into the castle, and got hold of the box; and when he was coming down the stairs, it fell down, and he was very near being caught.
When the queen saw him she was in a rage, and said he should be beheaded; and he was again put into a mouse trap until the time of his execution.
And the little mouse ran up the horse's leg, and made it dance; and Jack put the mousein his pocket.
Then Jack lifted up the copper-lid very quietly and got down like a mouse and crept on hands and knees till he got to the table when he got up and caught hold of the golden harp and dashed with it towards the door.
One winter, when mamma was ill, And scarce could move at all, There used to come a little mouse From out the bedroom wall.
But, oh, I'd give my bat and ball, My kite and jackknife too, To see that mouserun round again The way it used to do.
And when mamma was well again, The mouse would still come out, And nose around in search of food, And scamper all about.
The mouse is missing: the question to be decided is, where is it?
One verdict will say the kitten contains the mouse; the other will as certainly say the mouse is in the tom-cat.
The city mouse then showed his country cousin what a nice bed he had out of some old clothes that had been put in a chest.
The frog was so lazy that he would not even jump to catch a fly; the cat was too lazy to catch a mouse that ran across her tail.
And with that he ran over a furrow in the field and slipped into a mouse hole.
I can do that, too,” replied the monster, and at once became a mouserunning around the floor.
On each side of the figure were all sorts of cats; some carrying mouse traps with mice in them, and some carrying catnip ready for tea.
They may be well examined in the hair of the mouse (figs.
In the gnawing or rodent animals, as the mouse or the rabbit, the pigment is partially at least situated in the cells of the medulla.
But for a man, with every other avenue open to him, to mouse about for a rich wife, I think is too dastardly for anything.
A mouse in view of a bit of toasted cheese never was more excited.
He loves better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep; he wanders from depopulated stream to depopulated burn, and all is fish that comes to his fly.
Nuttall, in 1907, in one experiment succeeded in transmitting Spirochaeta recurrentis from mouse to mouse by bites of bed-bugs.
The bugs, thirty-five in number, were transferred at short intervals from one mouse to another, not being allowed to take a full meal on the first, or infected mouse.
Nuttall succeeded in transmitting European relapsing fever from mouse to mouseby its bite.
The meadow-mouse has slept in his snug gallery in the sod, the owl has sat in a hollow tree in the depth of the swamp; the rabbit, the squirrel and the fox have all been housed.
However, such an authority as Darwin thought it was play, and Scheitlin said that the cat let the mouse loose many times in order that she might have the experience of catching it each time.
Evidently the cat does not play with the mouse for the delight in torturing it, but purely for practice that she may become skilled in the art of catching it.
I once caught a mother field mouse with her two young and placed them in a cage; the next day the young had strangely disappeared, but I am not sure that the mother had eaten them.
These are animals of the mouse tribe, which live in the mountainous districts.
I have seen them play with a catnip mouse for hours at a time, just as the mother cat plays with a real mouse.
They tell the following tale of The Mouseand the Cat.
The Mouse entreated her in friendly guise and comforted her and busied himself with her service; but she crept along till she got command of the issue of the nest, lest the Mouse should escape.
When she found herself in the dog's clutches, she was forced to take thought anent saving herself and loosed the Mouse alive and whole without wound.
I who shiver for fear when I see the mouse * And for very funk I bepiss my clo'!
In our European adaptations themouse becomes a rat.
As she prowled about in search of prey, she espied a nest at the foot of a tree, and drawing near unto it, sniffed thereat and purred till she scented a Mouse within and went round about it, seeking to enter and seize the inmate.
Hearing these words the Mouse replied, "How shall I suffer thee enter my nest seeing that thou art my natural foe and thy food is of my flesh?
The story of the town mouse and country mouse is always old and always new, and always true.
As she spoke, she dropped it with a cry, and a little mousesprang from the skirts, and whisked away into some corner.
When we were not on the water, we both liked to mouse about the queer streets and quaint old houses of that region, and to chat with the fishermen and their grandmothers.
When he came to the merry mill pin, Lady Mouse beene you within?
If you have ever noticed a mouse in full flight you will have some idea of how that Jap ran.
I'm waitin' fer an answer," The cat had his mouse backed into a corner and mentally licked his chops.
She took a few almonds from her pocket and went gently along towards the mouse and put it close by its side.
Agnes then put down two or three more, and left the mouse to eat its Christmas dinner.
I think you would have enjoyed seeing the mouse eating the almonds.
He was well known in Arthur's court, Where he afforded gallant sport; He rode at tilt and tournament, And on a mouse a-hunting went.
My child," replied his mother, "you have seen That demure hypocrite we call a Cat: Under that sleek and inoffensive mien He bears a deadly hate of Mouse and Rat.
Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion was, went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts.
THE FIELD MOUSE AND THE TOWN MOUSE A Field Mouse had a friend who lived in a house in town.
Now the Town Mouse was asked by the Field Mouse to dine with him, and out he went and sat down to a meal of corn and wheat.
The city mouse eats bread and cheese;-- The garden mouse eats what he can; We will not grudge him seeds and stocks, Poor little timid furry man.
