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Cat and Mouse: Fables about Cats and Mice

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A cat and a mouse wanted to live together and keep house as a partnership. They prepared for winter by buying a pot of fat, and because they had no safer spot for it, they placed it under the alter in the church until such time that they would need it. However, one day the cat took a longing for it, and approached the mouse. "Listen, little mouse, my cousin has invited me to serve as godfather. She has given birth to a brown and white spotted little son, and I am supposed to carry him to his baptism. Is it all right for me to leave you home alone with the housework today?" "Go ahead," said the mouse, "and if they serve you something good, just think of me. I would certainly welcome a drop of good red christening wine." But the cat went straight to the church and ate the top off the fat and then went strolling about the town and did not return home until evening. "You must have had a good time," said the mouse. "What name did they give the child?" "Top-Off," answered the cat. "Top-Off?

Cat and Mouse: Fables about Cats and Mice Cat and Mouse fables about cats and mice translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman © 1999-2013 Contents Cat and Mouse in Partnership (Germany, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm), type 15. Mouse and Mouser (England, Joseph Jacobs), type 111. Belling the Cat (Aesop), type 110. The Cat and the Mice (Aesop), type 113*. The Hypocritical Cat (Tibet), type 113B. The Cat and the Mice (Tibet), type 113B. The Cat as Holy Man (Palestine), type 113B. The Town Mouse and the Field Mouse (Romania, M. Gaster), types 112 and 113B. The Dog, the Cat, and the Mouse (Romania,

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