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"I am no doubt rather dense," said the mouse with mounting truculance. "May we take it a step at a time? The spell was right, except that you ordered a donkey. And what did you get? You got a mouse. So somebody blundered. It can't possibly be you. So, I suppose it's me, for not being a donkey!"
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A splendid children's story published in 1966 (some might say first published in 1937).