The cat was on a steep church roof; the three blind mice ran far ahead. The farmer’s wife, with a carving knife, ran close behind.
Sixteen wobbly legs leaped from the roof.
The mice, with seeing eye canes to guide them, landed in soft, fresh snow. The cat died on broken glass but had eight lives to go.
The farmer’s wife, resembling sliced egg-colored red, stumbled far behind. She fell from the roof, landed dead, and remained so.
Someone stole her purse.
ME’s conclusion. “Death by carving knife. Anniversary gift. Defective or intended unknown. “But it worked on its own. “1