For 10 points, name this species of the singer Josephine in the final story written by Kafka, who also recounted an anecdote in which one is eaten by a cat.
Michael McClure produced an Obie Award-winning adaptation of a story about these animals, whose narrator declares that nobody would ever try to entertain them by cracking nuts. These animals are so industrious, that they refuse to believe that a member of their race who has to be carried around because she's limping is actually hurt. These animals resist all temptation to laugh at a member of their species whom many think is merely (*) piping. In the very short story "A Little Fable," one of these animals laments that "the whole world is growing smaller every day" as it bumps into progressively narrower walls, and is told: "You only need to change your direction," before being killed. For 10 points, name this species of the singer Josephine in the final story written by Kafka, who also recounted an anecdote in which one is eaten by a cat.
Michael McClure produced an Obie Award-winning adaptation of a story about these animals, whose narrator declares that nobody would ever try to entertain them by cracking nuts.
mice [or mouse-folk; or Mus]