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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447980" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Legal Mouse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A lawyer had a legal mouse,<br>A naughty one they say,<br>That took possession of his house<br>And papers ev'ry day,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His books and records it would gnaw,<br>Without regard for loss,<br>Its disrespect and lack of awe<br>Just kept the owner cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When no revenge the man could get,<br>His anger blazed so high,<br>Till he declared when next they met,<br>The mouse would surely die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The murder, all the world should know,<br>He planned with ire intense,<br>To strike the mouse a fatal blow<br>And call it self-defence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day the desk he opened wide,<br>The mouse in regal state,<br>Sat in a pigeon hole, inside,<br>In style the scene was great.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A stroke the lawyer at it gave,<br>A star it made to flee,<br>Into a hole its life to save,<br>To find security.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he had guarded well the hole,<br>It scrambled for the floor,<br>Again he kept it from the goal,<br>Its life endangered more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The door of hope he seemed to close<br>Upon the enemy;<br>Its feelings then, nobody knows,<br>Its longings to be free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up through his sleeve it made a break,<br>In search of freedom sweet;<br>His arm he then began to shake,<br>To bring it to his feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His cuff was thrown away, no doubt,<br>The button had to go;<br>His coat and vest he tore about,<br>The mouse had scared him so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All o'er his body, too, he felt<br>The mouse, though such a prig,<br>Himself he then began to pelt,<br>To yell and dance a jig.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His thoughts he threw around his will,<br>The same he had not made;<br>He felt uncertain which would kill,<br>Such terror was displayed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The neighbors and the police heard<br>The noise of that affray;<br>And to the spot, without a word,<br>They quickly made their way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon his back, between his shirts,<br>The little mouse was found.<br>'Twas hard, amid' so many flirts,<br>To bring it to the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out of his coat, upon advice,<br>He came, with haste replete.<br>The room-door opened in a trice<br>And made good his retreat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mouse was taken from its place<br>Of hiding and of dread,<br>So painful was the last embrace,<br>It fell down by him—dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then to the crowd the lawyer said,<br>'Of such, my friends, beware,<br>Mine enemy, the mouse, is dead,<br>Such things we all can spare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The killing, in my case, was one<br>Of self-defence, 'tis true;<br>And, on the whole, I've only done<br>As other men would do;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But still, my hands are red with blood!<br>That mandate, 'Do not kill,'<br>Prevents the waters of the flood<br>From washing off the ill.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To all who shall the story read,<br>And many will, I trust,<br>Don't kill a helpless mouse, I plead,<br>Unless the killing's just.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lizelia+Augusta+Jenkins+Moorer">Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer</a><div class=q>
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A naughty one they say,
That took possession of his house
And papers ev'ry day,

His books and records it would gnaw,
Without regard for loss,
Its disrespect and lack of awe
Just kept the owner cross.

When no revenge t..."></div>
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