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a bandage and some salve on Daddy’s poor toe,
and then they all sat in the dormer window and
thought how very hungry they were.
“I could go and get some wheat from the stor-
room,” said Johnny Mouse.
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No, Johnny, you could not,” said his Mother.
The reason why we are allowed to stay in this
nice home, is that we never take anything which
does not belong to us, and you must never, any of
you, take anything that is not given you.”
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“There is a new moon tonight,” said Grand-
mother Mouse. “Isn’t it pretty?”


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“Grandfather,” asked Johnny Mouse, “what
is the moon made of?”
I “I once heard a lady remark to a gentleman,"
said Grandfather Mouse, who was old-fashioned
and like to use elegant language, “that perhaps
the moon is made of green cheese."
“I wonder!” said Johnny Mouse. “If that is
true, wouldn’t it be a jolly place to live?”
The more he thought about it, the more he
liked the idea and he could just imagine himself
sitting safely in the curve of a young new moon,
biting off big pieces of soft new cheese to drop
down to his hungry family.


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I ll go. said Johnny Mouse.
“The moon is very far away,” said Mother
Mouse, “and I do not see how you could get
there. You have no wings.”
“Leave that to me,” said Johnny Mouse. “I
shall find a way.”
So he kissed his mother goodbye and scam-
pered up to the roof of the house. '
He was just in time, for he found Reddy Bat
just about to take his family out to supper.
“How are you, Johnny Mouse?” asked Reddy


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