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The little children of Varnhart, the charcoal-burner, who were as poor as any mouse in the old churches, rushed out of their little home up the lane, bringing with them a cake stuck full of sugar and seeds, and tied round with a blue ribbon, that their mother had made that very week, all in her honor. "Only see, Bébée! Such a grand cake!" they shouted, dancing down the lane.
Mouse, tikus kechil. Elephant, gajah: these huge animals abound in the woods, and from their gregarious habits usually traversing the country in large troops together, prove highly destructive to the plantations of the inhabitants, obliterating the traces of cultivation by merely walking through the grounds; but they are also fond of the produce of their gardens, particularly of plantain-trees and the sugar-cane, which they devour with eagerness.
Danny Meadow Mouse was a cry-baby and no one wanted to play with him. If he stubbed his toe he cried. If Striped Chipmunk beat him in a race he cried. If the Merry Little Breezes pulled his whiskers just in fun he cried. It had come to such a pass that all the little meadow people delighted to tease him just to make him cry.
Your bath is getting cold: you must get out!" In her blank astonishment Princess Sonia did not know whether to laugh or cry. Was she alone with a monster who, after having played with her as a cat plays with a mouse, would suddenly turn and kill her? Or was this merely some irresponsible lunatic, whom chance alone had enabled to get into her rooms?
Then he slipped into the woods, feeling so happy that he had to stop and relate his good fortune to the first person he met. And that was where Dickie Deer Mouse made a slight mistake. Scarcely had Dickie Deer Mouse plunged into the woods when he met Fatty Coon coming in the opposite direction. "Hullo!"
Last of all, a thought struck her it must have been a mouse at the preserves. And Mrs. Quarles forthwith opened the important cupboard, where Jennings now well knew the idol of his heart was shrined. Then another thought struck Mrs. Quarles, though probably no unusual one, and she seemed to have mounted on a chair, and to be bringing down some elevated piece of crockery.
This great gleaming owl, five times greater than any earthly owl, was making that chacking noise, as though it would soon spread its wings, to swoop on some such wretched mouse as myself. I could see its eyes roll. I thought I saw the feathers stiffen on its breast. Then, as the sweat rolled down my face, both the horrible things vanished as suddenly as they had appeared.
The penalty for my having been a naive kiddy, hungry for friendship, once. And now, good n . Oh, Mouse, he says my eyes even with this green kimono on Come here, dear. tell me what color my eyes are." She moved with a quick swing to the side of her bed. Thrusting out her two arms, she laid ivory hands clutchingly on his shoulder.
'Can you withstand that flattering compliment, Wilmet? said Felix, laughing. 'I can't! 'He is very welcome, said Wilmet; 'only, Lance, he must not stay the night, for there really is not room for another mouse. The little girls had heard so much about Bill Harewood, that they were much excited; but their sympathy kindly compensated for the lack of that of the elder brothers.
"But, sir," said he, "it may be easy enough for such a big gentleman as you to change himself into a large animal: I do not suppose you can become a small one a rat or mouse for instance. I have heard that you can; still, for my part, I consider it quite impossible." "Impossible!" cried the other, indignantly.
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