THE MICE CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 148, 25 June 1938, Page 20

THE MICE CHILDREN

♦ —-" (For the Younger Children.) Three little mice had just ! been scolded.for. running out into, the big kitchen "where Toodles the cat was. Fortunately he had talking to his sweetheart, Tiddles, from next door and was too busy. However, MotherMouse spoke quite severely and then that night Mary, Annie, and Emily said to: their mother: "We are so sorry." Then Mrs. Mouse said: "Now, I'll tell you a story." So they cuddled up and listened to their bedtime story. "Once upon a time there lived a naughty little mouse. She loved cheese and. was always stealing it. The mice all warned her she would be eatea by the cats but she only laughed. One day a new cat arrived. He saw the little mouse one day and thought what a lovely meal she would'make. One night he felt hungry as r Cook, had forgotten to feed him. He waited outside the mouse's hole and peered in. The mouse saw "his big green eyes and felt very angry. 'Just when I wanted to get some cheese,' she said "to her sisters. 'Stay away,' they .warned her. 'He is young and sharp;' But the mouse poked out a little pink tongue. The cat was wise and cleverly poked open, the larder; door. ..; Then, l ;creeping in, he waited* , : The \ mouse "';, looked through the hole arid: saw. thfe. open larder door. 'Just 'my■ lucK? she thought arid ran out, despite the pleadings of her sisters. Creeping up to the cupboard, she crept in. There, was a scream and a scuffle and that was the last of the little mouse."

"Oh, Mother, how sad," said the mice. "We will never run away again. Never."