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Show I WILLIE MOUSE AND THE PUMPKIN other opening and pikcd out hia head. lie looked all aronid. but there waa 1 nothing to be sn, so out he jumped , and ran for home. Hut whni should he see. Juat as he reached the trap by the door of h" I home, but the most dreadful rrea- j ture. with Its had right by the hole In the wall whrra he wanted to enter. Just at that moment the creature I saw Willie Mouse, and up It jumped. Around the trap went Willie Mouse, j and the creature aftr him. "Click, t click. clii kV went the trap, and Willie j Mouse thought he must be rnuaht. But each time he found he could run, and j run he did. By and by he dodged behind ft bar- rel and ran up on lop. and by the time th cat. for of course It was j I'uttsy that was chHStng hint, mas be- hind the barrel after Willie Mouse h had jumped and was in the hole. j He mtnt In so quickly that he turn- ; t bled over and over and rolled right j at the ft-et of his frightened family. ; who had been waiting all night for i him so they could move away. "Kijueak, squeak:" said Willi Mouse, j "Such a, night ns I have bad" And i he begun to tell his mother all about It. "Of course It mas a cat." said his mother, "and she almost caught you when vou were eating the pumpkin. She rol led It over and 1 he hole you made hit the wall, and that waa the reason you could not g;et out. "It's a. good thing you could not find it. for I'uaa waa waiting right there, you may be sure. Hha thought you bad escaped hr, and so she watched ' by the door of our house, and now j me cannot movn until tonight, for It ) is daylight not." ! "Willie Mouse did not need to be j punihd for running a may, for the ' pumpkin marl- him very al' k, and after j j that he l-t bis mother tel him what i mas lest for little mlrr to eat. and ' , nvr again did he go alu-iut nibbling at things he knew nothing about. Cop, right. 1st, by the McCture News- ; I p.iprr S ndi at. New Yoi k City. ; Willi Mouse's mother came home on night and eald they would have to move; that the pantry outside the wall where they lived mas too well kept for family of mbe to live in. "Why. every cover Is on tight, and ; there is no food on the shelves, and, if you will believe it. there is a trap ! riicht by the door of our home with chse in it." said Mrs. Mouse. "We must move this very niKht, my children," she said, "while Ihe moving is good, for no doubt the next thing tht will appear mill be a cat, und then our lives mill not be worth a thing" It happened that -Willie Mouse had been out In the pantry Jhat day and had taken ft look about by himslf, and tn one corner of the pantry he had seen something that he mas sure mas a big rhse. though It did not smell at all like any he had ever before be-fore seen or smelled. So, while his mother was packing and getting ready to move that very nicht. just aa Moon as it was dark and still. Willie Mouse slipped away from his sisters and brothers and went to the door of the horn, mhirh mas the hole in the wall, and looked out Into the pantry. II snifft-d the chese in the trap, but he had ben shown a trap and knew betetr than to poke hia little no near the dreadful thing. lie looked back to make sure he was not notfcd by his brothers and sisters, and out he ran, right for the something h thought mas a rheeso. "Nibble, nibble." went Willi, and tasted It. "No, it is not cheese, but It is ?'H"1." he said. "I'll t;ke a few mn' n j hh(e and thr-n. run back In ton to move milh th famllv." Hit W.IMp nibbled 'tut kept nib-t-hfE until be miif itiMd the big pumpkin, for h:it mas wh;.t is mas. aod h forgot all altont movie it until oToethiTiK fthurp hit b.tn on th tail Sly. how qui kly !) Jumped and drew in bis tail, and thn Willi a quite mire th morld luriu-d ncht over, lit Kiood on hia hfril. he roll'd on hiv :de. and ihon aJl mas Mill and very da i-U WltHe M..nse kept vry Mil!--no ft lil his htt le heart s'med be trying try-ing to Jump out of lux bit ie body -,md thn. after a. mhile. m)ien b grew laolder. h lookr-d for the lime b harj mad and tt wwn quit clotted. There van no hoi to be found. Willi Mus tiraft to nibble again, and after a briic time he mad an- |