GR translation: And when the mice run down...

[Michael Bailey]

> b) and, if the mice "run down for good" -- idiomatically, "run down
> for good" means "run down for the last time - indicating a sort of
> dramatic finality, the machine standing triumphant over the animal at
> last
>

should read:

and, if the ... "run down for the last time" - indicating... (etc)

(had to close that quote, you know - if I left it open, everything I
wrote for the rest of time would be inside it...I shudder to think)