The City Mouse and the Country Mouse Fable and Bedtime Stories for Kids

The City Mouse and the Country Mouse or The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse kids story cartoon animation Please Subscribe: The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse is one of Aesop’s Fables. It is number 352 in the Perry Index and type 112 in Aarne–Thompson’s folk tale index.[1] Like several other elements in Aesop’s fables, ’town mouse and country mouse’ has become an English idiom. Story In the original tale, a proud town mouse visits his cousin in the country. The country mouse offers the city mouse a meal of simple country cuisine, at which the visitor scoffs and invites the country mouse back to the city for a taste of the “fine life“ and the two cousins dine like emperors. But their rich and delicious metropolitan feast is interrupted by a couple of dogs which force the rodent cousins to abandon their meal and scurry to safety. After this, the country mouse decides to return home, preferring security to opulence or, as the 13th-cent