As soon as they were out of danger the City Mouse said, “That was the old Cat she is the best mouser in town,–if she once gets you, you are lost.” The Country Mouse ran after, you may be sure, as fast as HE could. The City Mouse just whispered, “Sh!” and ran as fast as he could to the hole. But all at once, in the midst of their eating, there came a scratching at the door and a sharp, loud MIAOUW! The little Country Mouse liked the taste so much that he could hardly nibble fast enough. This was even better than the brown sugar. After much tugging and pulling they got a large dried prune out of the jar on to the shelf and began to nibble at it. The little Country Mouse was shaking all over when they got safely away, but the little City Mouse said, “That is nothing she will soon go away and then we can go back.”Īfter the cook had gone away and shut the door they stole softly back, and this time the City Mouse had something new to show: he took the little Country Mouse into a corner on the top shelf, where a big jar of dried prunes stood open. And they ran as fast as they could to the little hole where they had come in. He was just thinking how lucky the City Mouse was, when suddenly the door opened with a bang, and in came the cook to get some flour. The two little mice nibbled and nibbled, and the Country Mouse thought he had never tasted anything so delicious in his life. The little City Mouse gnawed a hole in the bag and invited his friend to nibble for himself. There, on the lowest shelf, behind some stone jars, stood a big paper bag of brown sugar. The very first place that the City Mouse took the Country Mouse to see was the kitchen cupboard of the house where he lived. The little Country Mouse was glad to do this, and after a while he went to the city to visit his friend. You must come to visit me and see how nice it is to live in the city.” “Really,” he said, “you do not live well at all you should see how I live! I have all sorts of fine things to eat every day. When the little City Mouse sat down to dinner he was surprised to find that the Country Mouse had nothing to eat except barley and grain. Once a little mouse who lived in the country invited a little Mouse from the city to visit him.
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