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Title: The Story of the White Mouse

Author: Unknown

Release Date: October 3, 2009 [EBook #30169]

Language: English

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_NEW JUVENILE LIBRARY._

The

STORY

of the

WHITE MOUSE.

Embellished With
_Four Elegant Copperplates._
A New and Correct Edition.

LONDON:
Printed for the Booksellers.
1816.

The
STORY
of the
WHITE MOUSE.

In the kingdom of Bonbobbin, which, by the Chinese annals, appears
to have flourished twenty thousand years ago, there reigned a prince,
endowed with every accomplishment which generally distinguishes the sons
of kings. His beauty was brighter than the sun. The sun, to which he was
nearly related, would sometimes stop his course, in order to look down
and admire him.

His mind was not less perfect than his body; he knew all things without
having ever read; philosophers, poets, and historians, submitted their
works to his decision; and so penetrating was he, that he could tell the
merit of a book by looking on the cover. He made epic poems, tragedies,
and pastorals, with surprising facility; song, epigram, or rebus,
was all one to him; though, it is observed, he could never finish an
acrostick. In short, the fairy who presided at his birth had endowed him
with almost every perfection; or, what was just the same, his subjects
were ready to acknowledge he possessed them all; and, for his own
part, he knew nothing to the contrary. A prince so ac