The Mouse's Tale
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"The Mouse's Tale" is a shaped poem by Lewis Carroll which appears in his 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Though no formal title for the poem is given in the text, the chapter title refer
The printed version of "The Mouse's Tale", p.36 in the 1865 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The original manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground, 1863
Cur
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A cur was a dog breed used by cattle drovers in England. In the United States, a short-haired dog used in hunting and herding is called "cur-tailed", or "cur" for short.
The Mouse's Tale
…was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:— In the tale, the Mouse (speaking of itself in the third person) explains how a cur called Fury proposes the pastime of condemning it to death, himself serving as both judge and jury. "The Mouse's Tale" thus anticipates the nonsense…
Painting by Sydenham Edwards, 1800
Engraving by Thomas Bewick, 1791
The Catahoula Leopard Dog, a recognized cur breed