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unavenged--the cowardly frogs will be punished for the ill they have done
to me who am the son of the king of the mice.
Then Crumb Snatcher sank for the last time. But Lick Platterwho was
at the brink of the pondhad heard his words. Straightway this mouse
rushed to the hole of Bread Nibbler and told him of the death of his
princely son.
Bread Nibbler called out the clans of the mice. The warrior mice
armed themselvesand this was the grand way of their arming:
Firstthe mice put on greaves that covered their forelegs. These they
made out of bean shells broken in two. For shieldeach had a lamp's
centerpiece. For spears they had the long bronze needles that they had
carried out of the houses of men. So armed and so accoutered they were
ready to war upon the frogs. And Bread Nibblertheir kingshouted to
them: "Fall upon the cowardly frogsand leave not one alive upon the
bank of the pond. Henceforth that bank is oursand ours only. Forward
lv belts! "
Andon the other sidePuff jaw was urging the frogs to battle. "Let us
take our places on the edge of the pond he said
and when the mice
come amongst uslet each catch hold of one and throw him into the pond.
Thus we will get rid of these dry bobsthe mice."
The frogs appyilai:
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