A CAT MAY LOOK AT A MOUSE
A New Forest correspondent has written to a London journal saying that the other Sunday many passersby paused before a corn merchant's shop and laughed. Staring in at tho window from her perch on the sill, mewing excitedly and scratching at the panes with . her "sharp claws, was a big cat, while on the inner sill, behind tho glass, a sleek-little mouse was sitting up on his hind-legs calmly drinking from the slowly-melting icicles on the window and taking no notice of pussy whatever. Circumstances alter cases, as Aesop would say if he had written this story,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23601, 9 March 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)
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