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What Grandpa Mouse Said

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The moon's a holy owl-queen.         She keeps them in a jar         Under her arm till evening,         Then sallies forth to war.         She pours the owls upon us.         They hoot with horrid noise         And eat the naughty mousie-girls         And wicked mousie-boys.         So climb the moonvine every night         And to the owl-queen pray:         Leave good green cheese by moonlit trees         For her to take away.         And never squeak, my children,         Nor gnaw the smoke-house door:         The owl-queen then will love us         And send her birds no more.

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