- [repeated line]
- Tom the Cat: En garde!
- [Tuffy retreats after Tom chases him away]
- Tuffy: [in French, translation] My captain, it is impossible to send the love letter. The cardinal's cat is outside with a big sword.
- Tuffy: [in English] It's a BIG pussycat!
- Tuffy: [In French, translation] It's only because of my swordfighting skills that I was able to escape, my captain. I'm too young to die. And besides that-...
- [Jerry shows book to Tuffy]
- Tuffy: [in English] And besides that, I'm chicken.
- Tuffy: [reads rule in French, translation] "A mouseketeer is brave"?
- [Jerry affirmatively nodded]
- Tuffy: [looks in the mirror, in French, translation] What are you?
- Tuffy: [in English] A man or a mouse?
- [Tuffy exits the door]
- Tom: En garde!
- [bashing and crashing; Tuffy retreats and looks in the mirror again]
- Tuffy: [in English] You are a mouse.