Peter Newell, The Hole Book, plate 18

	A cat espied a tiny mouse, And crouched to make a spring; The mousey couldn't find a place In which to hide—poor thing!

	Just then the bullet made a hole— A fair-sezed hole at that— And in it dashed the frightened mouse, And thus escaped the cat.

Peter Newell, The Hole Book, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1908, plate 18.

Online edition by Marco Graziosi, December 1999.
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