_WHITE-PAW'S ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT
WORLD._
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1. "My dear son, what is the world like?" asked Mrs. Mouse, after she
had hugged White-paw, and set his supper before him.
2. "Oh, it's a grand place! There are great black mice, and great
white ones, and great spotted ones, and great friendly mice with long
noses, and great uncivil mice with horns.
3. "Then there are queer mice with only two legs, and some terrible
mice that make a great noise." At this moment, Gaffer Graybeard came
in, and White-paw said, "Sir, I've learned what a mouse-trap is." "Ah!
then," said the sage, "you've not seen the world in vain."
_THREE BLIND MICE._
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Three blind mice! Three blind mice!
See how they run! See how they run!
They all ran after the farmer's wife;
She cut off their tails with a carving-knife.
Did you ever see such a thing in your life
As three blind mice?