By young readers

Press, 17 July 1979, Page 16

By young readers

These two charming stories were sent in for the mouse story competition last month. They are imaginative stories which make pleasant reading and both deserve high commendation: Once there was a little black and white mouse called Pansy. She belonged to a little girl named Joanna. One day Joanna was feeding Pansy when her mother asked her to borrow some milk from a neighbour. She went away, leaving the door wide open. Pansy thought that would be the time to have a look around the house. She jumped out of her house. When Joanna got home she was horrified to find Pansy gone. She searched the house from top to bottom. She thought the cat must have got Pansy, but one day she opened her wardrobe and saw something moved in a drawer, and there was Pansy! A happy ending! By Catherine Moen (aged eight years), 23 Dyers Pass Road, Christchurch. There were once two mice who lived in a big yellow house in London.

They Were well off and They even made friends with the cat belonging to the mistress' of the house. Their names were Joanna and Douglas. They had everything mice could ever want, alarm clocks, beds and even watches. They also had tiny wine glasses, a wine cabinet, plates, knives, forks, spoons and a tiny record player.

They made their home in an empty doll’s house. Joanna brought up her babies to be city mice. In the dolls’ house there was a bath which the mice could fill with water. One day one of the baby mice decided to take a bath. He turned on the tap and went to get a towel. When he came back the bath was full, so he turned off the tap and got undressed. He got into the bath Suddenly he slipped and went under the water. After a minute the splashing of the baby mouse was heard and his parents pulled him out. From that day on no baby mice were allowed to have a bath on their own.

By Justine Lee, P.O. Box 2 *B.O 07 , Christchurch. (Aged eight years).