MISS MOUSE. All-out? Why, that is more curious than the others. I have never seen it in print.
CAT (glaring at Miss Mouse). You never will!
MISS MOUSE (frightened). What do you mean?
CAT (preparing to spring). I mean to put you down with the fat!
MISS MOUSE. Help! help!
[Enter MOTHER MOUSE just as the Cat clutches her daughter and jumps out of the window with her. Mother Mouse crosses and looks into the empty grease-pot.]
MOTHER MOUSE (sighing sadly). 'T was ever thus! Show your grease-pot, and you'll go with it!
THE GIRL WHO TROD ON THE LOAF
SCENE I
TIME: the day before Christmas.
PLACE: Ingé's Mother's home.