The Young Mouse and the Cat. One day a very young mouse saw a cat. The cat chased her. She escaped and ran back to the other small animals, shouting, "Oh help! A cat, and it's going to eat me!" But the other animals said, "Hush! You're too young to know what you're talking about." The rabbit said, "It wasn't a cat, it was a sparrow." The sparrow said, "It wasn't a cat, it was a water vole." The water vole said, "It wasn't a cat, it was a hamster." The hamster said, "It wasn't a cat, it was a bilby." The Mouse's mother said, "It wasn't a cat, it was a large mouse. Now go outside and play." The young mouse was woebegone and cried, "There are so many of these people and only one of me. I must be wrong." So she went back to the cat and told it, "You are not a cat;" and the cat ate her. The End.