Not hearing anything from her, Moses Mouse soon grew more impatient than ever.[p. 74]
"Well!" he sang out. "What luck!"
"Potatoes!" came his wife's muffled answer, out of a full mouth. "I declare, I forgot to call you."
XVII
THE EAVESDROPPER
For anybody that was so faint, Moses Mouse ran to the box of potatoes very spryly. His wife was already inside it, eating.
"I'll have my supper first," he announced, "while you stay outside on the cellar bottom and watch for Miss Snooper."
"I'm just as hungry as you are," his wife objected. "I don't want to wait. You know you'll be a long time at your supper." What she really meant was that Moses Mouse would be sure to overeat.[p. 76]