PLACE: _perhaps your own garret_.
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MOTHER MOUSE.
HER DAUGHTER, MISS MOUSE.
THE CAT.
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[MOTHER MOUSE _and_ MISS MOUSE _are in their spare room because Mother
Mouse is getting ready for a journey. Miss Mouse helps her. The_ CAT _is
outside, peeping now and then through the window, but so slyly that the
mice do not see her._]
MOTHER MOUSE (_going_). Now mind you keep one eye on our grease-pot, child.
MISS MOUSE. That I will, dear mother!
MOTHER MOUSE. Let no one in,--no one! no one!
MISS MOUSE. No one, dear mother!
MOTHER MOUSE. I'll not be long away. Good-by, my child.
(_Starting out; stopping._)
Mind you show no one the grease-pot, child,--no one! no one!
Miss MOUSE. No one, dear mother!
[_Mother Mouse goes out of the front door._]
CAT (_calling through window_). Oh, Miss Mouse! Oh, Miss Mouse!
MISS MOUSE (_showing alarm_). Who calls?
CAT (_very sweetly_). Only I! Will you please let me in?
MISS MOUSE (_shaking head_). Mother said--
CAT (_interrupting quickly_). 'T is a matter of business!
MISS MOUSE (_shaking head_). But mother said--
CAT (_interrupting_).
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