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What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell

What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before

the Third, Had to Tell"I started off at once to the largest town," said she,

"but the name of it has escaped me. I have a very bad memory for

names. I was carried from the railway, with some forfeited goods,

to the jail, and on arriving I made my escape, and ran into the

house of the turnkey. The turnkey was speaking of his prisoners,

especially of one who had uttered thoughtless words. These words

had given rise to other words, and at length they were written down

and registered: 'The whole affair is like making soup of sausage

skewers,' said he, 'but the soup may cost him his neck.'

"Now this raised in me an interest for the prisoner,"

continued the little mouse, "and I watched my opportunity, and

slipped into his apartment, for there i