Show CIO ms F THE ENCHANTED MOUSE one day the wife of a poor man le bought aught a mouse in a wire trap she took it ii ti to 0 a pall of water to lo drown it when to her surprise the mouse spoke i to her good madam it said 1 I am an fen enchanted chanted mouse and have in days dayd 9 gono ono by been a prince I F hope some day to come into my own again give me life alto and you will never nover regret it it if you will promise never to take the ithe bread and cheese in my again said the wife TI 1 I will grant your request j thaia that I 1 will said the mouse and and promise to keep tho other mice away also so the wife opened the trap and the mouse ran into a big hole in the wall wb what at are you doing 7 asked her ber husband who cam came e in it at that moment when the tho wife told him what the mouse had said he waa was verv Tery angry anery why did you not make a wish he said it if it is an enchanted mouse he scan can grant anything and herded here we ire are living in this old hut and ak I 1 never in r all a 11 my life had enough toba tobacco acol 10 to fill my pipe ope call him back and wish that at al may have a comfortable homeard home and a full pipe so the wife went to the hole and called mouse pray come to mo me iravea I 1 have a favor to ask cither ot ci thee the mouse put its head head out of the hole and asked what do bod you want oame 1 I caught you in iii a trap said bald the wife and lelyou let you ga go without wishing mchusband My husband says I 1 should have wished and that he is tired tire d outliving ot living in this hut he ele wishes a comfortable thome home anda and a full pipe very well said the mouse close your eyes turn around times and then open your eyes and aou you will have the wish the wife did as the mouse so said and when mhd opened her eyes there was liar her husband sitting ina in a large easy i chair smoking a pipe 9 x see he be sald said this better than the poorly furnished but we lived v ln in and I 1 have a full pipe too yes replied the wife we should be content now tor for we shall be warm in the winter in a house hoose so well built but ofie one day later the husband said wife go to the mouse mouse and tell him it if hi ae is 6 a prince ln dis gUlBe i he cin as well build us 9 a handsome e castle but husband pleaded the wife we are comfortable here what more to we need A mo do as I 1 tell you said sald the tiie husband go 60 the wife wifel went to the hole in the wall vall and called mouse mouse pray come to me I 1 have r lafavor favor to ask of thee what Is it asked the mouse put his bead out my husband wishes a castle she mid id he is tired of living in a small house 11 close your eyes turnaround turn around three times mes and then open your eyes said the mouse and you will have your wish the wife did sp and when she opened copeney her eyes she did not know what do you want of me where sho was everything was so beautiful but her husband came and f fook bole her by the hand band and led her through rough the largo rooms this better than the small house he asked her 1 I never be comfortable here said the wife it Is tor too grand tor for mo but even this did not satisfy the pe husband and one day he said 1 I should like to be an emperor and rule a coun country iry go to the mouse and ask him to mut grant iv it but I 1 do not want to be an em 11 idress press said the wife pray do not fask k it and besides the mouse is only a prince tn in his bis own right he could inot enot grant such a wish so do as 1 I tell you said tha the husband itna the poor noor alta obeyed 1 mouse mouse pray cono to me I 1 have a dav favotto favor orto to ask of thee what do you want now asked the mouse putting his hi head shead out ot of the hole hola alas answered the toor SOOT woman my hhand wished to be an emperor empero i r and d rule a country do you wish to ba bean in ain empress lifted wa abe gotlie mouse f t oh not replied the oe wite wife td tar far r f rather live in the comfortable home you tire first t gave us but mchusband my mk husband la is ambitious and would rule close your eyes the said to the wife turn round three times and then open your eyes when she open opened edher her ey eyes esthern in a comfor comfortable tabo chair sal sai her husband smoking his hia pipe the wife told her husband what ane mouse had said and as lie he was afraid of being without a full pipe he nover never bothered his bis wife again and lived peaceably ever after |