{"date":"February 3","id":"02-03","intro":["While the cat’s away the mice will play. Boisterous and ludicrous happenings occur in a house left in charge of a servant. But in midst of merriment the master returns."],"minutes":19,"readings":[{"author":"Ben Jonson","end":558,"start":543,"volume":47,"work":"The Alchemist"}],"slug":"february-3","status":"proofread","title":"A House of Mirth and Revelry","url":"/harvard-classics/february-3/","words":3742}