StoryTitle("caps", "An Old Rat's Tale") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(76, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He was a rat, and she was a rat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And down in one hole they did dwell.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And each was as black as your Sunday hat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And they loved one another well.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He had a tail, and she had a tail, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Both long and curling and fine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And each said, \"My love's tail is the finest tail ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the world, excepting mine!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He smelt the cheese, and she smelt the cheese, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And they both pronounced it good;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And both remarked it would greatly add ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the charm of their daily food.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So he ventured out and she ventured out; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I saw them go with pain.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But what them befell I never can tell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For they never came back again.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Laura E. Richards.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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