"I can't come out to play with you now. I have to catch a mouse for Mother and Aunt Tabby."
Fluffy was much interested. "Where are you going to catch it?" he asked.
"In the shed. I found the hole myself. It's a big, big, BIG hole. I guess the biggest mouse you ever saw lives in it. I guess you'd be scared if you tried to catch a mouse as big as that one; wouldn't you?"
"Maybe I would and maybe I wouldn't."
"I know you would."
"I've caught some big mice, too," said Fluffy.
"Not as big as this one, though. I'll show him to you after I catch him."
Jazbury ran back and mewed for the cook to open the door again. The cook was so angry she would not open it for quite a while, but Jazbury mewed so loudly that at last she was obliged to for the sake of peace. When she did open it she cried, "Scat!" at him, and pushed out her foot at him as he ran past her.
Jazbury did not mind that. He hurried on past her, and out into the shed, the door of which was luckily open.
The hole he had found was down back of a bench, and some unused buckets were piled up in front of it.