The Hungry Mouse  Saturday, August 1, 2009  kids short stories A
mouse was having a very bad time. She could find no food at all.
She looked here and there, but there was no food, and she grew
very thin.  At last the mouse found a basket, full of corn.
There was a small hole in the basket, and she crept in. She
could just get through the hole.  Then she began to eat the
corn. Being very hungry, she ate a great deal, and went on
eating and eating. She had grown very fat before she felt that
she had had enough.  When the mouse tried to climb out of the
basket, she could not. She was too fat to pass through the hole.
"How shall I climb out?" said the mouse. "oh, how shall I climb
out?"  Just then a rat came along, and he heard the mouse.
"Mouse," said the rat, "if you want to climb out of the basket,
you must wait till you have grown as thin as you were when you
went in."