The Fella with a Fiddle (1937)

A mouse fakes blindness and plays his fiddle he returns home where it becomes apparent hes rich The tax collector arrives and he pulls various levers and presses buttons to make his home look like a shack The tax collector cant catch him A cat sees this and tries baiting a trap with a gold coin that fails but a gold crown on his tooth lures the mouse in Or does it The mouse telling this story to his grandchildren looks oddly familiar