Visual impairment men in the dark) touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then compare notes and learn that they are in complete disagreement. "Three Blind Mice" is a medieval English nursery rhyme about three blind mice whose tails are cut off after chasing the farmer's wife. The work is explicitly incongruous, ending with the comment "Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three blind mice?" Poet John Milton, who went blind in mid-life, composed On His Blindness,
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories Three Blind Mice and Other Stories Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. The first edition retailed at $2.50. The later collections "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding" (1960), "Poirot's Early Cases" (1974), "Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories" (1979), and "Problem at Pollensa Bay" (1992) reprint between them all the stories in this collection except the title story "Three Blind Mice" – which is an alternate version of the play "The Mousetrap", and the only Christie