Squeak

**Squeak I am and squeak I'll do. Here's some food, I like that too!** Tiny mouse feet tread where no cowardly mouse would dare. **Cat is gone, childer here; won't be long, before he's here!** Scampering bravely, he snatches a scrap of food voluptuously waiting by the table leg. He stops and listens, ears perked and whiskers twitching. **Cat! Cat!** In his fear, he runs headlong into the girl's leg. Stunned for a moment, the world swirls around his tiny head and he drops his tiny crust. The slicing sound of claws on linoleum centers him on his current situation. Flying, he dives into his home-hole. **The cat must sleep--

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