The Frog one day, intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse tightly to his own.
He said, I have done it thoughtlessly, and not with evil intention, and tried to calm her, and she pretended to believe this, but she had mischief in her mind.
Then said the apprentice, I will let mercy take the place of justice, but beware of getting into mischief again.
In a forest of his country lived two giants who caused great mischief with their robbing, murdering, ravaging, and burning, and no one could approach them without putting himself in danger of death.
The bung was in the cask, but one of the little moor-imps pulled it out in his mischief, and flung it up into the yard, where it beat against the window; and now the beer's running out of the cask, and that won't do good to anybody.
At all this the wicked demon laughed till his sides shook—it tickled him so to see the mischief he had done.
"The ladies of the court are up to some mischief, I think.
