# wee sleekit? something about a mouse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wee-sleekit-something-about-a-mouse/208816 "2003-10-22T01:35:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buncombe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@buncombe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buncombe)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wee-sleekit-something-about-a-mouse/208816/1 "2003-10-22T01:35:47Z")
so I have a line from something literary stuck in my head. I think it’s something about a “wee beastie,” and I think there’s a “sleekit” or something like that in there, along with the words “tim’rous” (spelled like that? can’t remember!" and “cowering.” what is this from? it’s all one line, I think… Help! Thanks. -b ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wee-sleekit-something-about-a-mouse/208816/2 "2003-10-22T01:41:33Z")
[Robbie Burns – _To A Mouse_](http://www.bartleby.com/6/76.html) ---
**Author:** ![buncombe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@buncombe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buncombe)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wee-sleekit-something-about-a-mouse/208816/3 "2003-10-22T01:42:12Z")
never mind. I grow dumber by the minute. Robert Burns. Soon I shall begin drooling. sorry bout that. -b ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wee-sleekit-something-about-a-mouse/208816/4 "2003-10-22T01:42:40Z")
It’s Robert Burns’s poem [“To a Mouse.”](http://www.bartleby.com/106/144.html) ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wee-sleekit-something-about-a-mouse/208816/5 "2003-10-22T01:46:43Z")
Burns wrote “To A Mouse”? Did the mouse ever write back? I’ll be here all week, folks. ---
**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wee-sleekit-something-about-a-mouse/208816/6 "2003-10-22T05:38:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pseudotriton ruber ruber \* > \*\*Burns wrote “To A Mouse”? > > Did the mouse ever write back? > > I’ll be here all week, folks. \*\* Yep, you are all weak here.😃 In fact: > [@](#): > > That wee bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble > Has cost thee mony a weary nibble! ---
**Author:** ![Armilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@Armilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Armilla)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wee-sleekit-something-about-a-mouse/208816/7 "2003-10-22T11:46:54Z")
Wee sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie alive, now lying flattened on the M25… Spike Milligan, I think. ---
**Author:** ![buncombe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@buncombe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buncombe)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wee-sleekit-something-about-a-mouse/208816/8 "2003-10-22T12:54:45Z")
such a fine fine response, even after I remembered how to google, and also how I should google before posting. duuhhh. thanks everyone. -b