The story is about a little mouse who finds a coin and uses it to buy a pink bow for her tail. Several animals (a dog, sheep, cow, rooster, donkey, pig) ask her to marry them, but she refuses each one based on not liking the sound of their voices. When a cat asks and says "meow," she agrees to marry him. However, on their wedding day the cat puts the mouse in a pot of boiling water and eats her. The story of the little mouse who swept the stairs has now ended.