Mouse and Plum Cake, The

DESCRIPTION: "A mouse found a beautiful piece of plum cake." It "held the cake fast," not telling the other mise. "He kept gulping it down till he made himself ill." The doctor makes him tell of his greed. Children are warned to share or they too might become ill
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2010 (Grimes-StoriesFromTheAnneGrimesCollection)
KEYWORDS: food animal warning
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Grimes-StoriesFromTheAnneGrimesCollection, p. 37, "The Mouse and Plum Cake" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: Grim037

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