“I have been moreover informed,” said the Cat, “but I know not how to believe it, that you have also the power to take on you the shape of the smallest animals; for example, to change yourself into a rat or a mouse; but I must confess to you, I take this to be impossible.”
“Impossible?” cried the Ogre, “you shall see that presently,” and at the same time changed into a mouse, and began to run about the floor.
Puss no sooner perceived this, but he fell upon him, and ate him up.
Meanwhile the King, who saw as he passed this fine castle of the Ogre’s, had a mind to go into it.
Meanwhile the King, who saw as he passed this fine castle of the Ogre’s, had a mind to go into it.
Puss, who heard the noise of his Majesty’s coach running over the drawbridge, ran out and said to the King:
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