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Baby's Own Aesop (1887)

8. The Married Mouse (Perry 150)

So the Mouse had Miss Lion for bride;
Very great was his joy and his pride:
But it chanced that she put
On her husband her foot,
And the weight was too much so he died.

ONE MAY BE TOO AMBITIOUS

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