Beschrijving
Country Mouse Visits Town Mouse. A town mouse is given hospitality by a country mouse but is shocked by his poor food. The town mouse persuades the country mouse to visit her and leads her into the pantry. They are interrupted by a cat or the owner of the house. The country mouse is frightened and prefers her own poverty [J211.2]. Cf. Type 201.
Motief
J211.2
Commentaar
Documented by Horace, Sermones (II,6, 79–117), also Aesopic fable (Perry 1965, 485f. No. 352). Popular as a proverbial phrase.
Oorspronkelijk Verhaaltype
112
Subgenre
sprookje