The tale of a mouse by Lewis Carroll

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“Mine is a long and a sad tale!”
“It is a long tail, certainly,
but why do you call it sad?”
Turn witch into fairy.

Fury said to a mouse,
That he met in the house,
“Let us both go to law:
I will prosecute you. — Come,
I’ll take no denial;
We must have a trial:
For really this morning
I’ve nothing to do.”

Said the mouse to the cur,
“Such a trial, dear Sir,
With no jury or judge,
would be wasting our breath.”
“I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,”
Said cunning old Fury:
“I’ll try the whole cause,
and condemn you to death.”

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