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Updated: June 29, 2025
From a distance, they can hardly fancy that even any little mouse could help being either drowned or starved. This will be about the last spot in the Levels that any boat will come to. You see, Mildred, our Red-hill, though it is everything to us, is but a speck compared with the grounds that have stood above water since the waters began to sink.
"Do you go to sleep again now. There is not such a hurry as there was, the waters are going down so fast." "Are they, indeed? Oh, I do not want to sleep any more. I am quite wide awake now. Are you sure the flood is going down?" "Only look! Look at that steep red bank on the Red-hill, where it was all a green slope yesterday, and covered with water this morning.
He whistled to his dog, which scampered down-stairs to him from the top of the house; put dog, puss, and boiler into the clothes' basket, and pulled himself over with them to the Red-hill, taking care to carry the tinder-box with him. There he made a fire, skinned and cooked his hare, and, with his dog, made a feast of it, under a tree.
It seemed to Mildred's eye, however, as if a clear path had been cut through these mists, from the Red-hill to the moon on the horizon, and as if this path had been strewed with quivering moonbeams.
The Red-hill was now an island, which he had all to himself; and it was richly stocked with game, for his food and sport. Here he could have his own way, and be completely happy.
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