On, little Drumikin. Tum-pa——”
But he never got any farther, for the jackal recognized his voice at once, and cried: “Hullo! you’ve turned yourself inside out, have you? Just you come out of that!”
Whereupon he tore open drumikin and gobbled up Lambikin.
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Once upon a time a Town Mouse met a Country Mouse on the outskirts of a wood. The Country Mouse was sitting under a hazel thicket plucking nuts.
“Busy harvesting, I see,” said the Town Mouse. “Who would think of our meeting in this out-of-the-way part of the world?”
“Just so,” said the Country Mouse.
“You are gathering nuts for your winter store?” said the Town Mouse.
“I am obliged to do so if we intend having anything to live upon during the winter,” said the Country Mouse.
“The husk is big and the nut full this year, enough to satisfy any hungry body,” said the Town Mouse.