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‘You sit at home,’ said the cat, ‘in your dark-grey fur coat and long tail, and are filled

with fancies, that’s because you do not go out in the daytime.’ During the cat’s absence
the mouse cleaned the house, and put it in order, but the greedy cat entirely emptied
the pot of fat.

‘When everything is eaten up one has some peace,’ said she to herself, and well filled
and fat she did not return home till night. The mouse at once asked what name had

been given to the third child. ‘It will not please you more than the others,’ said the cat.
‘He is called All-gone.’

‘All-gone,’ cried the mouse ‘that is the most suspicious name of all! I have never seen it
in print. All-gone; what can that mean?’ and she shook her head, curled herself up, and

lay down to sleep.

From this time forth no one invited the cat to be godmother, but when the winter had
come and there was no longer anything to be found outside, the mouse thought of their
provision, and said: ‘Come, cat, we will go to our pot of fat which we have stored up for
ourselves—we shall enjoy that.’

‘Yes,’ answered the cat, ‘you will enjoy it as much as you There is an idiom in Connect

would enjoy sticking that dainty tongue of yours out of English ‘cunning as a fox’,
Language
which can be used for the cat
the window.’ in this story. Which idiom
They set out on their way, but when they arrived, the will you use for the mouse in
pot of fat certainly was still in its place, but it was empty. your language?

‘Alas!’ said the mouse, ‘now I see what has happened,
now it comes to light! You a true friend! You have
devoured all when you were standing godmother.

First top off, then half-done, then—’

suspicious: causing doubt
or mistrust
dainty: delicately small and
pretty

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