A stunning layout drawing actually used in the making of the 1951 Animated Short "Two Mouseketeers".

Jerry and Nibbles are two mouseketeers who decide to help themselves to a lavish banquet, which Tom is attempting to guard. It is the first in a series of Mouseketeer shorts, but was originally intended as a one-off. It is conceptually similar to 1948's The Little Orphan except instead of Indians VS. Pilgrims, this is a battle between a guard and the King's Mouseketeers. Tom is commanded to guard a lavish banquet from the King's Mouseketeers with his very life. Failure to do so, and "off comes ze head." Jerry and Nibbles enter the castle hall through a stained glass window and parachute down to the table. They unsuspectingly catch Tom's attention by hitting the cat in the face with a champagne cork.

Later, Nibbles is singing Alouette to himself, when Tom emerges behind him and pokes him with his sword. The little mouse yells angrily "Hey, attention-la! Vous pourriez faire mal a quelqu'un, Monsieur pusscyat! Au secours! Au secours! Le pussycat!" (Hey! Watch it! You could hurt someone with that, Mister Pussycat. Help! Help! The pussycat!) Before Nibbles can get away, Tom impales the little mouse's cape to his sword. Jerry manages to stab Tom and rescue Nibbles, launching a swashbuckling fencing display against Tom. While this goes on, Nibbles brings along a cannon and stuffs it completely full with food, in fact, everything that is on the banquet table. He lights the cannon and it explodes. As the smoke disappears, we see Jerry and Nibbles walking triumphantly down the street. Suddenly, in an unusually morbid ending, they see a gullotine coming down, strongly suggesting that Tom was actually executed, though off-screen. Nibbles sighs "Pauvre, pauvre, pussycat," (Poor, poor pussycat) and shrugs "C'est la guerre." (It's war.) The two Mouseketeers march off into the distance.

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