Note 2 — THE COUNTRY OF THE MICE.

“Well, then,” answered the Mouse, “all we wish you to do is to provide us by to-morrow evening with one hundred thousand sticks, each about a foot long,2 and to have them laid in rows on the bank of the river. If you will undertake to do this, we on our side will undertake to stave off the threatened invasion and to put the opposing army into a state of confusion and panic. And if we succeed in carrying out all we promise, we will ask you for the future to safeguard us against the two principal dangers which threaten the existence of the Mice who live in your country.”