The Mouse and His ChildA wind-up toy mouse and his child, broken and then mended, set out to find the animals and doll house with which they were in the toy shop. Along the way, they make enemies with a dump rat and have many adventures. |
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ahead asked the child asked the mouse beaver beer-can bittern bluejay BONZO Dog Food broken Caws of Art chipmunk CHONK clock clockwork Crow dance dark doll house dump elephant Euterpe eyes fell felt fireflies flea circus flew forage squad gone good-luck coin guard hawk head heard hopped hung Iggy inside kingfisher Last Visible Dog laughed legs light looked Manny Rat meadow mice Miss Mudd mouse child mouse father moved Much-in-Little Muskrat night nutshell drum once Papa pine platform pond Ralphie rattled rock rusty seemed self-winding Serpentina shadows shrews sighed silence slowly smash smiled snow sound spears spring stared stood stopped stream sunlight teeth territory There's tin seal took toys tracks tramp trash Uncle Frog Uncle Manny unwound voice waited walked watched weasels What's whispered whistling wind window windups wings wires wood mice wound yelled