The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse "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. Like several other elements in Aesop's fables, 'town mouse and country mouse' has become a ...

" is one of Aesop's Fables from ancient times, often retold under that name or assorted variations. Works which include variations on the title or subject matter (or both) of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" include: * "Mus Urbanus et Mus Rusticus" ('The City Mouse and the Country Mouse') (about 35 BC), Latin poem, II.VI.77–115 of the ''

Satires Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or e ...

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Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...

* " The Twa Mice" (circa 1480s), Scots adaption of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" * ''The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse'' (1687), English satire by Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax * ''

The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse ''The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse'' is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. In December 1918. The tale is based on the Aesop fable, "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse", with d ...

'' (1918), English children's book by Beatrix Potter based on "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" * ''Le Rat de Ville et le Rat des Champs'' ('The Town Rat and the Country Rat') (1927), French animated film by Ladislas Starevich * '' The Country Cousin'' (1936), American animated short film based on "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" * "The City Mouse and the Country Mouse" (1977), an episode of ''Basil's Cartoon Story Book'' * "Country Mouse, City Mouse" (''In the Heat of the Night'') (1989), American TV episode * '' The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: A Christmas Tale'' (1993), American TV special * '' The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures'' (1998–2001), French-Canadian-American animated TV series * "Gratitude" (2000), American animated TV episode of '' Adventures from the Book of Virtues'' based on "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse"

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