1 The bright eyes belonged to a little gray mouse, and the mouse had eaten a hole into the cushion and made a comfortable nest there.
2 They found the rose-colored brocade boudoir and the hole in the cushion the mouse had left, but the mice had grown up and run away and the hole was empty.
3 Yes, yes,' answered the mouse, 'by all means go, and if you get anything very good to eat, think of me.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP 4 She said to the mouse: 'You must do me a favour, and once more manage the house for a day alone.'
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP 5 The good mouse consented, but the cat crept behind the town walls to the church, and devoured half the pot of fat.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP 6 During the cat's absence the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied the pot of fat.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP 7 The mouse at once asked what name had been given to the third child.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP 8 'All-gone' was already on the poor mouse's lips; scarcely had she spoken it before the cat sprang on her, seized her, and swallowed her down.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP 9 My tale is done, there runs a mouse; whosoever catches it, may make himself a big fur cap out of it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In HANSEL AND GRETEL 10 Once upon a time, a mouse, a bird, and a sausage, entered into partnership and set up house together.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE 11 The bird's duty was to fly daily into the wood and bring in fuel; the mouse fetched the water, and the sausage saw to the cooking.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE 12 For, when the mouse had made the fire and fetched in the water, she could retire into her little room and rest until it was time to set the table.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE 13 Beg and pray as the mouse and the sausage might, it was of no use; the bird remained master of the situation, and the venture had to be made.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE 14 They therefore drew lots, and it fell to the sausage to bring in the wood, to the mouse to cook, and to the bird to fetch the water.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE 15 He picked up the wood, and flew sadly home, and told the mouse all he had seen and heard.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE MOUSE, THE BIRD, AND THE SAUSAGE