"Is it strange for a mouse to read a book?"
Ding Dong Ear was quite miffed at the fat man's doubt, grabbing a strip of squid and shrilly retorting, "We're all civilized folks, why can't we read books?!"
"We're not like those uncivilized mice!"
"Creatures like me that have been enlightened by our elderly ancestors can recognize letters and write diaries! From your tone, it seems like you are looking down on our Mouse Clan? That's discrimination! Barefaced discrimination! We'd receive a summons from Danghag if we were outside!"
"I didn't challenge whether you guys catch lice or not, or whether you wear clothes, did I?"
After venting up to this point, the little mouse seemed to feel he might have been a bit presumptuous with his last statement. He stopped talking, paused for a bit, then hesitantly asked in a soft voice, "When you guys play, you don't catch lice off each other, right…"
