“And tell me, fair sir, thy title and birth,
For of high degree thou art surely come;
I have room by my hearth for a stranger of worth,
And a welcome to boot to my royal home.
For, sooth to speak, my name is Puffcheek,
And I come of Bullfrog’s lordly line;
I govern the bogs, the realm of the frogs,
A sceptred king by right divine.”
II
Then up and spake the mighty mouse: