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The children were made to feel that now was the chance to win our bread for months to come, and that there must be no shirking. Mousie promised to clear away the things while my wife, protected by a large sun-shade, walked slowly down to the Bagley cottage.
"Let's hide!" exclaimed Flop, and they were looking for a place to hide when they happened to see a poor little girl mouse near a shock of corn, and her tail was held fast by a stone that had fallen on it. "Was that you crying?" asked Flop. "It was," said the mousie girl. "Oh my poor tail! How can I ever get loose?" "We'll help you," spoke Curly.
Connected with this room is another for Mousie and Winnie. By leaving the door open much of the time it will be warm enough for them. So you see this end of the house can be heated with but little trouble and expense. The open fire in the living-room is a luxury that we can afford, since there is plenty of wood on the place. On the other side of the hall there is a room for Merton.
The long L at the back of the house seemed full of doors. "There, Mousie, here you are!" he exclaimed. "And don't you miss your lesson to-morrow." "To-morrow is Saturday! oh, I had forgotten. And I can go to see Evangelist to-night." "You haven't said 'thank you' for your last ride on Flyaway." "I will when I'm sure that it is," she returned with her eyes laughing.
"Alfred E. Ricks all but licks the dust off of Bill Bassett's shoes. "'My dear young friend, says he, 'I will never forget your generosity. Heaven will reward you. But let me implore you to turn from your ways of violence and crime. "'Mousie, says Bill, 'the hole in the wainscoting for yours. Your dogmas and inculcations sound to me like the last words of a bicycle pump.
These words were spoken to a pale girl of fourteen, who appeared to be scarcely more than twelve, so diminutive was her frame. "Yes, papa," she replied, a faint smile flitting like a ray of light across her features. She always said she was better, but never got well. Her quiet ways and tones had led to the household name of "Mousie."
Soon his cries ceased, and tender-hearted Mousie stole after him. Returning she said, with her low laugh, "He'll be good now for a while; he's sound asleep." And so passed the last day in our city rooms. Except as wife and children were there, they had never appeared very homelike to me, and now they looked bare and comfortless indeed.
The nuts grew for him as truly as for you youngsters. At the same time I suppose he will form part of a pot-pie before long." "I hate to think that such pretty little creatures should be killed," said Mousie. "I feel much the same," I admitted; "and yet Merton will say we cannot indulge in too much sentiment. You know that we read that red squirrels are mischievous in the main.
And pretty soon it was dark, and then the piggies came out and the mousie girl showed them the way home, and the alligator man did not get them. So, you see, the mousie helped the piggie boys after all. And next, in case the salt cellar doesn't hide in the pepper caster and make believe it's a mustard plaster I'll tell you about Flop having a tumble.
So the two cubs rolled over each other, biting, clawing, and snarling. During the tussle the boy got loose, ran over to the wall, and started to scale it. Then both cubs scurried after him, and, nimbly scaling the cliff, they caught up with him and tossed him down on the moss, like a ball. "Now I know how a poor little mousie fares when it falls into the cat's claws," thought the boy.
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