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"Oh-h!" she said hysterically, and the next instant was standing upon a chair, pale as a ghost. It was a wonder she had not mounted the dresser, too, for there, issuing in creepy single file from the wainscoting, came mice — mice of various tints. A red one led the grewsome rank, a black and white one came next, then in decorous procession followed the guilty green one, a yellow one, a blue one, and finally — horror of horrors! — a red-white-and-blue mouse, carrying a tiny American flag.
Från "The Green Mouse", 1910 av Robert W. Chambers med illustrationer av Edmund Frederick, f. 1870
Jag önskar att Råttfångaren från Hameln stod in telefonkatalogen, lokala delen ;)
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