Snubbed, tormented, and ridiculed them:

Mice as a rule are much like men,

So they swallowed their pride and called again.

The maiden mouse of an arrogant mind

To morbid romance was much inclined.

The reason for this I have not learned,

But I think by novels her head was turned.

She said that the chap who dared to nap

One hour inside of the farmer's trap