We took him out once, into a snow-drift, with a lantern round his neck, but he rescued nothing, and lost the lantern--and then he lost himself, for it was dark.
But he is very handsome and good, and I knew, if I put him in the middle, he would let anything sit upon him.

He would not feel it, or mind if he did.

He takes no notice of Cocky.
Benjamin never quarrels with Cocky, but he dare not forget that Cocky is there.

And Cocky sometimes looks at Benjamin's yellow eyes as if it were thinking how very easily they would come out.

But they are quite sufficiently happy together for a Happy Family.
The mice gave more trouble than all the rest, so I settled that Lettice should wind up the mechanical mouse, and run that on as the curtain rose..