78 THE HISTORY OF A NUT-CRACKER.

cousins, and two hundred and thirty-five of her other
connexions, without reckoning thousands of her subjects,
were caught in the mouse-traps and ignominiously executed.

  
  

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. Then did Dame Mousey, with the remnant of her court
and the rest of her ———
subjects, resolve upon
abandoning a_ place
covered with the blood
of her massacred rela- =
tives and friends. The
tidings of that resolution became known, and reached the

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