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diff --git a/25458.txt b/25458.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d5f78d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/25458.txt @@ -0,0 +1,972 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Surprising Stories about the Mouse and Her +Sons, and the Funny Pigs., by Unknown + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Surprising Stories about the Mouse and Her Sons, and the Funny Pigs. + With Laughable Colored Engravings + +Author: Unknown + +Release Date: May 13, 2008 [EBook #25458] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SURPRISING STORIES *** + + + + +Produced by Susan Skinner, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of +public domain works in the International Children's Digital +Library.) + + + + + + + + + + + +SURPRISING STORIES + +ABOUT + +THE MOUSE AND HER SONS, + +AND + +THE FUNNY PIGS. + + +[Illustration] + + +WITH LAUGHABLE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS. + + +LONDON: DEAN & SON, 11, LUDGATE HILL, E. C. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE + +MOUSE + +AND + +HER SONS. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE MOUSE AND HER SONS. + + +Once on a time there lived a Mouse, +Sole mistress of a spacious house, + And rich as mouse need be: +'Tis true her dwelling, underground, +Was neither long, nor square, nor round, + But suiting her degree. + +No lofty ceilings there were seen, +No windows clear, or gardens green, + Or rooms with neat division. +But, in a corner, she could find +Of viands, sorted to her mind, + A notable provision. + +Her neighbours round esteemed her well, +And often in her little cell, + Would spend a social hour; +Besides, she had a friendly heart, +And to the poor she would impart + Some of her little store. + +Now, Madam Mouse two sons had got, +One named Streak,--the other, Spot; + She gave them education, +And also taught them to excel +In all such arts as fitted well + A Mouse's occupation. + +[Illustration] + +Two prettier Mice were never seen, +So soft, so nimble, and so clean; + Their teeth were sharp, their eyes were bright; +And when through wood she saw them gnaw +As neatly, almost, as a saw, + The mother's eyes beamed with delight. + +And oft, she said, "My sons, beware +The guileful Cat and baited snare, + To Mice a sure perdition!" +And showed how, caught within the trap +They would bewail their dire mishap, + With tears of sad condition. + +[Illustration] + +And, in plain terms, she would describe +Those terrors of the mousing tribe, + In every form and feature; +And then she would pourtray the Cat +Sworn enemy of Mouse or Rat, + A most voracious creature. + +Now, being grown both stout and strong, +They thought they had remained too long + In idleness at home; +And now their food they daily sought, +And of their mother little thought + While they abroad did roam. + +One fatal hour, with spirits gay, +Far from their home they strolled away, + And reached a lone farm-house; +Abundance, there, was found to eat; +It had been long a known retreat + To many a wandering mouse. + +[Illustration] + +But now the housewife saw, dismayed, +The waste so many mice had made, + And did a trap procure. +"And if I catch a mouse," said she, +"No mercy shall it find from me; + From mice my pantry I'll secure." + +Agreeing once to sup at home, +A different way the brothers roam; + Each finds a different fate. +Soon nimble Spot the pantry found, +And views the eatables around, + With consequence elate. + +[Illustration] + +And in the midst a trap there stood, +Made strong with wire and with wood, + And baited with fresh-toasted cheese. +"Dear me!" said the admiring mouse, +"What do I see?--a pretty house, + Constructed me to please. + +"What silly things these mothers are," +Said he, with a conceited air; + "What cause is there for fear? +This door is very high and wide, +Myself and twenty more beside, + Might safely enter here." + +Then in he rushed, and seized the bait, +And soon the dainty morsel ate, + Then turned to go away. +But, ah! poor mouse, he finds the door, +Which he so freely passed before, + Compels him now to stay. + +[Illustration] + +Now his kind mother's warnings rise, +And place before his weeping eyes, + Grim death in every shape. +Alas! poor prisoner Spot can see +No prospect left of liberty, + No chance of his escape. + +Now turn we to the kitchen side, +And see what fortune can betide + Poor Streak, who there is gone; +Where by a blazing fire there sat +A glossy, well-fed tabby cat, + Half sleeping, and alone. + +[Illustration] + +With veneration mixed with awe, +For the first time, a cat he saw + And thus expressed his mind:-- +"Can this meek creature prove," said he, +"The cat--so oft described to me,-- + Devourer of our kind." + +And now, to have a nearer view, +Closer and closer still, he drew, + And hears her softly purring; +"Ah me!" he cries, "what dulcet note, +What music from that downy throat; + I'm sure she is not stirring." + +The cat now turned her amber eyes, +And view'd poor Streak with glad surprise, + Then caught him with her claw; +Now o'er her head she whirls him round, +Then dashes him against the ground, + Or strikes him with her paw. + +[Illustration] + +Now lets him run a little way, +Now claws him back in cruel play, + Or bites through his soft ear; +At length, exerting all his strength, +He made a leap of wond'rous length, + And got away quite clear. + +"Why are my sons abroad so late?" +The mother said, foreboding fate, + And oft she sighed full sore; +Just then, she heard a mournful squeak, +And soon beheld poor wounded Streak, + Come crawling through the door. + +[Illustration] + +With falt'ring voice, and accents slow, +He told his little tale of woe, + And of his hurts did tell. +"Oh! had I been advised by thee, +My dearest mother, then," said he, + "I had been safe and well. + +"Not many moments can I live, +My loving mother, pardon give, + And let me die in peace." +Full many a tear the mother shed +Beside poor Mousey's dying bed, + And soon his voice did cease. + +"Disastrous fate!" the Mouse did say, +"To lose both sons in one sad day, + Dear objects of my love." +But, hark! a well-known step is heard, +Each bristle of the Mouse's beard, + Began with hope to move. + +[Illustration] + +And soon poor Spot's long nose she saw, +And then his little pointed paw, + Come gently on the floor. +"O, mother, mother," cried the Mouse, +"With joy I see our happy house; + My peaceful home, once more." + +With transport she beholds her son, +Who, on recovering breath, begun + To tell his perils past; +And how he had, with tooth and claw, +Contrived from out the trap to gnaw, + And so escaped at last. + + +MORAL. + + +If you do not attend to your parents' advice, +You may come to sad fate, like the two little mice. + +[Illustration] + + +END OF + +THE MOUSE AND HER SONS. + + + + + +THE + +LITTLE PIG'S RAMBLE + +FROM HOME. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE LITTLE PIG'S RAMBLE FROM HOME. + + +Once it happened, though when, is not easily said, +That a grunter, Jack Pig, took it into his head +To quit his good home,--his dear mother to leave, +Not thinking at all how for him she would grieve. +Said Jack, "Brother Bob for his pleasure has strayed; +I'll roam away, too, when I'm nicely arrayed:" +Next morn he set off in a hat and wig dressed;-- +The same that the farmer's son wore as his best. + + With snout aloft, he started out, + Then on the green he gazed about: + He whisked his tail with pure delight, +Saying--"I shall not lodge here to-night." + The geese came hissing at his heel, + But, 'midst their noise he heard a squeal; + And looking to see from whence it came, + He spied his mother down the lane. + +[Illustration] + +"Her son," said he, "so tall, she'll never know, +Dressed smartly as I am, so like a beau." +His heart beat quickly as his ma' he passed, +But, bowing, "How d'ye do, good dame?" he asked; +Then biting from out the hedge a nice cane, +And putting his hat on, said "All's right again; +Now over the world I'll roam, as fast as I can:" +Then he flourished his cane, and onward he ran. + +[Illustration] + +And trotting on briskly, Piggy soon came +To a field where some schoolboys were having a game; +Said he, "As I'm tired, I'll lie down to rest, +And perhaps if I do so, just here 'twill be best: +For I should not much like these poor boys to disturb, +As they possibly might be so very absurd +As to leave off their game, for respect towards me, +No occasion for which I can possibly see." + +[Illustration] + +But, just then, a boy spied him, and giving a call, +Thus said to his comrades, "Come here, my lads, all." +Then they left off their play, and they chased the poor pig, +Until he had lost both his hat and his wig. +They left him, at last, overcome with fatigue; +"Though," said he, "it is not for myself that I grieve, +But to think of the manners of these country clowns! +Such conduct would never be met with in towns." + +To get back his wig, he was greatly perplexed, +About which and his hat, he was equally vexed; +For the wind, when the boys were hardest in chase, +Blew them both in the river, its surface to grace; +And they seemed to mock Piggy, as there they did float; +"But I'll have you," said Jack, who pushed off in a boat; +When his finery reaching, the boat he upset, +"I can swim," cried the blade, "and I don't mind the wet." + +But, beside his own hide, both his wig and his hat +Were wet and deranged; so, to remedy that, +"I'll enter this cottage; here's a fire," he said, +"I'll hang them to dry, while I lie in the bed." +When the dame returned home, as he slumbered so snug, +She soon spied the gentleman under the rug, +And basted him well with a stick like a log, +Turning him and his wardrobe out into a bog. + +[Illustration] + +In the miry mess Piggy long struggled about, +Unable to rise; but at last he got out, +And crept to a field where fine cabbages grew: +"I'm hungry," said he, "I'll indulge in a few." +When, just as his snout had a nice plant uptorn, +A shot through his ear he had reason to mourn, +Discharged from the gun of a lad stationed there, +To take care of the crop, and all robbers to scare. + +Wounded, weary, and hungry, poor Jack now felt sad, +And thought of the home, so safe he once had, +Where he'd plenty of food, and clean straw for his bed, +And at night, a roof of good thatch o'er his head. +He escaped from the field, though he scarcely knew how, +And scampered as fast as his strength would allow: +In the distance, a town, long and wide he could see; +"Ah! ah!" said Jack Swine, "that's the quarter for me." + +Then Jack hurried on to the city so gay, +Where he walked through the streets in his comic array; +But think of his horror, oh! think of his dread, +When, hanging immediately over his head, +In the first butcher's shop that he chanced to discover, +Were the mortal remains of poor Bobby, his brother, +"'Tis sad," sighed our Jack, "such a difference should be +Between that unfortunate fellow and me." + +[Illustration] + +But now I have hardly the heart to relate +To my dear little readers, the terrible fate +That awaited poor Jack. Scarce a moment had passed, +As he gazed on his brother, while tears trickled fast, +When he uttered a loud and a heart-rending wail, +For a butcher, in blue, had caught hold of his tail, +By which, and one ear, while Jack squeaked for his mother, +Away he was dragged, to be slain, like his brother. + +The sun rose, next morning, and shed its first gleam, +On exact the same spot where his brother had been; +But there, in the same place, extended and dead, +Hung poor master Jacky, without any head. +The head, too, hung near,--but without its fine wig, +And was now to be seen as the head of a pig. +Many times has the butcher thought of his good luck, +But he'll never again capture such a gay buck. + +[Illustration] + +If pigs will walk upright, and strut with fine canes, +Stalking in towns, 'stead of roaming in lanes, +Misfortunes they'll meet with, no doubt, such as Jack's, +Getting shots through their ears, and kicks on their backs. + + Piggy left a good sty, + And went out, like a guy; + But think you, who chide him, + How many beside him, + By false pleasures are won, + Like the Prodigal Son. + +[Illustration] + +And while smiling at Piggy, think, too, of the woes +That attend, more or less, every wanderer who goes, +Leaving behind him his true friends, to roam, +In search of those pleasures found only at home. + + +END OF THE LITTLE PIG's RAMBLE FROM HOME. + + + + +THE + +LITTLE PIG'S TALE. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE LITTLE PIG'S TALE. + + +In a certain farm-yard, not a hundred miles off, +Some pigs were enjoying themselves at a trough; +They were having their dinner, or if 'twere too soon, +It might be their breakfast,--it scarcely was noon, +And, as pigs of fashion, their ears it might shock +To talk about dining before twelve o'clock. + +Well,--let us suppose it was breakfast,--and they +With their delicate noses were grubbing away, +When up came their master, whose looks, to my thinking, +Betokened a love for good eating and drinking; +And 'tis not unlikely the pigs thought so too, +For they never so much as said "How do you do?" +But went on in silence to finish their feeding, +Which certainly was not a mark of good breeding; +But as they thus acted, I must tell the truth, +Though I'd rather my pigs had not been so uncouth. + +However, the master looked on at his leisure, +And seemed to regard them with infinite pleasure, +And no ill intent,--'till he happened to see +One fat little lady pig, white as could be. +Then his mouth fairly watered, as he thought how nice, +With sage, onion, and apple sauce, would be a slice +Of that nice tempting piggy,--so, calling to Joe, +Who also was fond of roast pork, you must know, +Said, "Joe, you had better that little pig kill, +Before she gets bigger." Said Joe, "Sir, I will." + +[Illustration] + +The pigs heard this order with great consternation, +And grunted, quite clearly, their disapprobation; +But master and man took no heed of their sorrow, +And Miss was to die the day after the morrow. +The rest, who were all in her fate interested, +Now offered such comfort as pity suggested: +"They won't hurt you much," simpered one tender swain, +"I've heard that this killing is scarce any pain; +Pray take some more wash, and this cabbage-stalk bite." +"No, thank you," said Piggy, "I've no appetite." + +At night, when she laid herself down in her sty, +In vain she attempted to close her bright eye: +Not a wink could she get through the whole of the night, +And wept till she made herself look like a fright. +She turned first on one side, and then on the other, +And two or three times thought of waking her mother; +But this was not easy, for pigs are sound sleepers, +And not very willing to open their peepers. + +At last morning dawned, and mamma pig awoke, +When thus poor Miss Piggy with much spirit spoke: +"Dear mother, it certainly is a great pity, +To kill me while I'm so young and so pretty; +But if they can have such bad taste as to do it, +I really don't see why I should submit to it. +No one in their senses, I think, would remain +When they know they are soon to be cruelly slain; +There are more sties than this in the world, I dare say, +So I think I had better at once run away." + +[Illustration] + +"Alas! my dear child," said her mother, "I fear +You may as well make up your mind to stay here, +For 'tis likely the very first person you meet, +Would carry you off, and then kill you to eat. +Wherever you go, there is just the same danger; +You had better be killed by a friend, than a stranger. +To tell you the truth, I am sadly afraid, +It is for man's eating that we pigs are made. +The thought is not pleasant, yet, what we can't cure, +As the old proverb says, we must learn to endure." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Then a grave-looking pig, of respectable age, +Who was always considered remarkably sage, +Said, "Ladies, allow me to offer a word +Respecting the orders we yesterday heard. +It seems that Miss does not approve of the plan +Proposed by our master to Joseph, his man; +Though such we all come to, at one time or other: +Last week I thus lost my affectionate brother, +And next week, perhaps, I myself may be taken, +For this is the season for making of bacon; +However, as Miss Pig objects thus to be +Cut off in her prime,--and we all must agree +It is very unpleasant,--there can be no doubt of it,-- +I've thought of a way by which she may get out of it: +Now, if she had not been so plump and good looking, +They would never have fancied her ready for cooking; +But if she'd get rid of these charms, I am thinking, +By living awhile without eating or drinking, +And hides herself up in the loft, 'mongst the hay, +They'll think that somebody has stole her away. +And when she comes back, she will be so much thinner, +Depend on't they'll no longer want her for dinner." + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Mamma thought this scheme was uncommonly clever, +But her daughter indignantly answered, "No, never! +What! lose all my beauty? I'd much rather die for it; +If that's my last chance, I am sure I shan't try for it; +To be called thin and ugly,--I never could bear;-- +The thought makes me nervous. I vow and declare. +I should be neglected, and not have a lover: +I'd rather be killed, half a dozen times over. +'Tis a comfort to know, since my life I'm not able +To save, I shall look very well on the table." + +[Illustration] + +Poor Piggy was killed on the very next day, +And all who'd the pleasure of tasting her, say +That she was so nice, they should never forget her, +The Queen and Prince Consort could not have a better. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + +END OF THE LITTLE PIG'S TALE. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Surprising Stories about the Mouse and +Her Sons, and the Funny Pigs., by Unknown + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SURPRISING STORIES *** + +***** This file should be named 25458.txt or 25458.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/4/5/25458/ + +Produced by Susan Skinner, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of +public domain works in the International Children's Digital +Library.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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