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Max, the 2000-Year-Old Mouse is a 1967 Canadian animated television series produced by Steve Krantz, which originally aired on Canadian Broadcast Corporation in Canada in 1967 and became popular in several parts of the world, most notably the United States, where it was syndicated on both local and PBS stations between 1969 and 1979, [1] and also the United Kingdom, where it was repeated ...
Image of a guillotine-style mousetrap seller in the mid-19th century. In February 1855, Emerson wrote in his journal, under the heading "Common Fame": If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
The country mouse offers the city mouse a meal of simple country cuisine, at which the visitor scoffs and invites the country mouse back to the city for a taste of the "fine life" and the two cousins dine on white bread and other fine foods. But their rich feast is interrupted by a cat which forces the rodent cousins to abandon their meal and ...
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. In December 1918 . The tale is based on the Aesop fable , " The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse ", with details taken from Horace's Satires 2.6.79-117 .
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Works which include variations on the title or subject matter (or both) of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" include: "Mus Urbanus et Mus Rusticus" ('The City Mouse and the Country Mouse') (about 35 BC), Latin poem, II.VI.77–115 of the Satires by Horace "The Twa Mice" (circa 1480s), Scots adaption of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse"
When Alice hears the mouse's "long and sad tale", she is watching his tail. So, she imagines the tale in its shape. [1] The "Fury" referenced in the tale is Carroll's childhood friend's dog. [2] The Mouse's Tale, as printed in the first edition The Mouse's Tale from Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Carroll's original 1864 manuscript
The phrase "Krazy Kat" originated there, said by the mouse by way of describing the cat. Set in a dreamlike portrayal of Herriman's vacation home of Coconino County, Arizona , Krazy Kat 's mixture of offbeat surrealism , innocent playfulness and poetic, idiosyncratic language has made it a favorite of comics aficionados and art critics for more ...