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Title: Punky Dunk and the Mouse

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: October 13, 2006 [EBook #19531]

Language: English

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PUNKY DUNK
AND
THE MOUSE

THIS LITTLE STORY IS TOLD
AND THE LITTLE PICTURES
WERE DRAWN FOR A GOOD
LITTLE CHILD NAMED

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Published in the Shop of
P. F. VOLLAND & CO.
CHICAGO

COPYRIGHT, 1912,
P. F. VOLLAND & CO.,
CHICAGO, U. S. A.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

[Illustration]

Punky Dunk, very sly, with a wink of his eye
Strolled lazily all through the house;
To the cellar he went and the morning he spent
On a hunt for a fat little mouse.

[Illustration]

"Over there by the coal," he said, "Mouse has his hole,
So I'll sit there beside it and wait.
There's a trap with some cheese just as nice as you please,
And Mouse soon will come out for that bait."

[Illustration]

Punky sat by the trap, and seemed taking a nap,
But you know that bold Punky was wise.
Though he looked half asleep he was taking a peep
For the gleam of two bright little eyes.

[Illustration]

Soon the mouse crept right out and went running about;
Punky smiled to himself and he said:
"I will just let him play in his own foolish way
Till I think that I need to be fed."

[Illustration]

But the Mouse, too, was smart, and he got a good, start,
Then he leaped, and he saved his wee hide,
For he dashed in a hole that was not near the coal
But was hidden away at one side.

[Illustration]

"Ha, Ha!" Punky said as he shook his white head.
"Well, Mouse, you may run if you please,
But I'll eat just the same--'twas for that that I came."
So he reached in the trap for the cheese.

[Illustration]

Snip-snap! went the trap-- Wasn't that a mishap!
Punky's black little paw was inside.
He leaped and he jumped and he ran and he bumped--
And th