Show 2 FRIGHT FOR BILLY MOUSE B ILLY MOUSE was inquisitive there wa was no doubt a bout about it it an aa boon as his father or mother came cam home after hunting in the pantry billy mouse began to poke about to see bee what they had brought home for breakfast then when he was taken out in the pantry for a run when his parents knew that pu puss was not in the house billy mouse a always r aye ran to the highest shelf and peeked into all the boxes and once he crawled up behind some drawers and was waa caught fast until someone opened one and then he ran across the floor and puss fuss almost caught him one night when his father and mother hod bad planned to explore the how did you get out alive mrs I 1 mouse asked dining room to find birdseed for breakfast billy mouse jumped out of hla his warm bed and ran out lu in the pantry nil al alone it if I 1 dont begin to go about myself I 1 shall never grow up said he be mother and father think I 1 nm am a baby but I 1 shall show them I 1 am able to take care of myself first billy mouse found a ment pie which he nibbled at until he could eat no more and then he should have run home but not inquisitive billy he saw boxes and drawers to ito explore so to the highest shelf he made him way and nibbled oft off the paper that was around a box to find what was inside in the box was some wire that had been put in so tightly that when billy mouse made mace a hole in the box the end of the wire popped out and hit billy illy on the tip of his nose and sent him tumbling over backward off the shelf it was a good thing for billy mouse that the trap had bad been sprung or this would be the end of the story but it had bad so when billy ran in head first he did not know that hla his tall and body were outside he thought he was all hidden bidden in the box by and by back came his father and mother from their hunting trip to the dining room and there they saw bluy caught as they thought to in the trap oh my poor foolish child squeaked mra mouse ho be la Is caught in a trap and I 1 had such a nice breakfast of birdseed fort for i him and now he be will never eat anything again mr mouse led his bis weeping little wire wife away and then billy who had kept very still all alu time backed out of the 06 trap for he be did not know he be was ta in et a trap you see until he be heard his bis mother crying 1 I guess father and mother do not know how to get out of a trap said bald billy mouse you just run in and run out that Is all there to Is to it IL but just then another silly little mouse ran into another trap and there he be was fast billy mouse heard one squeak and a click and off he be ran tor for home borne mrs mm mouse tumbled over in a faint when she saw her son how did you get out alive she ehe asked when they had sprinkled her with water oh I 1 just backed out that Is all you have to do with some traps I 1 guess said billy thinking of the poor little mouse that was caught in the other trap you foolish boy said his father dont you know that trap had been sprung or you have got out I 1 but it to la full of cheese father said billy only I 1 could not reach all of it out ran mr and mrs mouse and soon they came back with the cheese and such each a breakfast they had of birdseed and cheese and while they were eating billy mouse said 1 I guess I 1 am big enough to hunt by myself now that I 1 have found all of this cheese wise father mouse always shook his head when mrs mouse said that billy knew which traps were sate safe to look into 1 I never could make out how bow lie found out that trap was safe I 1 wonder it something happened to drive bilm in there but billy mouse never told what happened on the top shelf lie he kept to himself how lie he was cured of being inquisitive a by mcclure newspaper New piper |