Children's Book: The British version of "The Mouse of the Cat": The story of borrowing the tail

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This illustration comes from the "Jay Jack Hoven" published in 1885, telling the story of the British version of "Cat and Mouse".In this illustration, the broken tail mouse is borrowing meat with the butcher.

The story is like this: cats and mice are playing in the malt house.The cat bit the mouse's tail.In order to let the cat return the tail back, the mouse promised the cat to find milk for the cat.The mouse first went to the cow, but the cow asked it to get some dried grass first.The mouse went to the farmer again, and the farmer asked the mouse to get meat first.The mouse found the butcher, and the butcher wanted to order bread.So the mouse found a bakers and came to the bread.

In this way, the bakery gave the rats bread, the mouse gave the butcher bread, the butcher gave the mouse meat, the mouse gave the farmer, the farmer gave the mouse dried grass, the mouse gave the cattle grass, the cow gave the mouse milk, the mouse gave the cat milk toThe cat finally returned the tail to the mouse!

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