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"See, Uncle Ratton's now come in

Then go and bask the bride within."

Who is it that sits next the wall

But Lady Mousie both slim and small?

Who is it that sits next the bride

But Lord Puddock with yellow side?

But soon came Duckie and with her Sir Drake;

Duckie takes Puddock and makes him squeak.

Then came in the old carl cat

With a fiddle on his back:

"Do ye any music lack?"

Puddock he swam down the brook,

Sir Drake he catched him in his fluke.

The cat he pulled Lord Ratton down,

The kittens they did claw his crown.

But Lady Mousie, so slim and small,

Crept into a hole beneath the wall;

"Squeak," quoth she, "I'm out of it all."