"It's a mouse in the goblet.

I nearly swallowed it, but I spat it out, and now I've got my foot on it.

Get a stick and kill it, quick!" [Illustration: MR.

POTTS' MOUSE] Mrs.Potts was at first disposed to jump on a chair and scream, for, like all women, she feared a mouse very much more than she did a tiger.

But at Potts' solicitation she got the broom and prepared to demolish the mouse when Potts lifted his foot.