Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe. Five Mice in a Mouse-trap, by the Man in the Moon.
CHAPTER I. THE MAN IN THE MOON
CHAPTER II. THE MOUSE-TRAP
CHAPTER III. THE MICE
CHAPTER IV. JOLLYKALOO
CHAPTER V. TOMTY
CHAPTER VI. A NIGHT JOURNEY
CHAPTER VII. A RAINY DAY AND WHAT CAME OF IT
CHAPTER VIII. A STORY CHAPTER
CHAPTER IX. A PICNIC
CHAPTER X. THE CARRIAGE CLOUD
CHAPTER XI. A BIRTHDAY PARTY
CHAPTER XII. SICKNESS IN THE MOUSE-TRAP
CHAPTER XIII. OFF TO THE SEA-SHORE
CHAPTER XIV. STORIES AGAIN
CHAPTER XV. FOLLOWING A SUNBEAM
CHAPTER XIV. UNDER THE SEA
CHAPTER XVII. GOOD-BYE
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Now this gentleman happened to be Uncle Jack, the uncle and guardian of the Five Mice, whose father and mother were dead; and then it was, when he came to live in it with his five nephews and nieces, and Mrs. Posset the nurse, and Susan the cook, and Thomas the gardener, then it was, I say, that the old Junk-shop, as the villagers called it was turned into the most delightful house in the world, which I call my MOUSE-TRAP.
I looked this way and that, but they were nowhere to be seen. At length I caught a glimpse of something blue, among some very thick bushes. I looked closer, and saw a sight that was truly melancholy. Among these bushes stood a huge old wooden trough, which old Jonas had built to receive the water that bubbled out of a spring close by. So the trough was full of water, and this being the case, of course Fluff the unlucky had fallen into it. How she had done it I do not know, but there she was, splashing about in fine style.
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"Rather like it, but a great, great deal nicer, more like whipped cream."
