Thursday, September 30, 2010

Crane: The Married Mouse

So the Mouse had Miss Lion for bride;
Very great was his joy and his pride:
But it chanced that she put
On her husband her foot,
And the weight was too much so he died.

ONE MAY BE TOO AMBITIOUS


Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 8. To see the Crane illustration for this fable, see the fable of The Mouse and The Lion.


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