“Ah, no, Mistress Pussy, you’d bite off our heads,”

“Ah, no, Mistress Pussy, you’d bite off our heads.”

Says Puss, “You look so wondrous wise,

I like your whiskers and bright eyes;

Your house is the nicest house I see

I think there is room for you and me.”

The mice were so pleased that they opened the door,

And Pussy soon laid them all dead on the floor,

And Pussy soon laid them all dead on the floor.