<A Thurber>
[James Thurber, *Fables for our Time*, Perennial Press ([1940] 1982)]
<T Mouse>
[The Mouse Who Went to the Country]
Once upon a Sunday there was a city mouse who went to visit a
country mouse. He hid away on a train the country mouse had told
him to take, only to find that on Sundays it did not stop at
Beddington. Hence the city mouse could not get off at Beddington
and catch a bus for Sibert's Junction, where he was to be met
by the country mouse. The city mouse, in fact, was carried on
to Middleburg, where he waited three hours for a train to take
him back. When he got back to Beddington he found that the last
bus for Sibert's Junction had just left, so he ran and he ran
and he ran and he finally caught the bus and crept aboard, only
to find that it was not the bus for Sibert's Junction at all, but
was going in the opposite direction through Pell's Hollow and
Grumm to a place called Wimberby. When the bus finally stopped,
the city mouse got out into a heavy rain and . . .
