The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership Part5

Topoff! Halfgone!’ repeated the Mouse, ‘they are such curious names; they make me very thoughtful.’
Oh, you sit at home in your dark grey coat and your long tail,’ said the Cat, ‘and you get fanciful. That comes of not going out in the day.’
The Mouse had a good cleaning out while the Cat was gone, and made the house tidy; but the greedy Cat ate the fat every bit up.

When it is all gone one can be at rest,’ she said to herself, and at night she came home sleek and satisfied. The Mouse asked at once after the third child’s name.

It won’t please you any better,’ said the Cat, ‘he was called Clean Gone.’

Cleangone!’ repeated the Mouse. ‘I do not believe that name has been printed any more than the others. Cleangone! What can it mean?’ She shook her head, curled herself up, and went to sleep.

From this time on no one asked the Cat to stand godmother; but when the winter came and there was nothing to be got outside, the Mouse remembered their provision and said, ‘Come,Cat, we will go to our pot of fat which we have stored away; it will taste very good.’


Words
1.thoughtful/考え込んでいる、考え深い
2.fanciful/想像力に富む、気まぐれな
3.tidy/こぎれいな、整然とした
4.greedy/貪欲な、欲深い
5.every bit/(口語)全部、みんな
6.sleek/艶のある、めかした
7.satisfied/満足させた
8.printed/～に印象を与える、印刷する
9.curled/(curl)カール、縮らす
10.provision/準備、用意、但し書き