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Literary
September 16, 1874
The Grange Advance
Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota
What is this article about?
A mother mouse recounts her past escape from a cat and the starvation of her previous litter to teach her young son caution, preferring safe nibbles in the barn loft over risky ventures downstairs. They once hide from a human lady who spares them.
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Carrie's Story.
BY SISTER SEDDY.
There is an old mouse living with her youngest little son, between some of the boards of our barn-loft floor. It is a nice, snug, little hiding place, and they can step out any hour of the day to get a nibble at the sweet corn-stalks or the hay. But it is not so safe for them to go down stairs and eat the corn and oats, and other nice things which the horses and chickens eat. The little mouse often thinks his mother unkind when she will not let him go down, for he gets tired of the hay and stalks. But she tells him how the cat once caught her, and shows him a place in her side where the hair has never grown since the cat gave her a scratch. She got away from the cat, but she was sick-a-bed for a week after in the house of a friend near by. She could not get to her own home, she was so lame: and when at last she did get home, she found the four little fat baby mice she had left there, all dead with starvation. When the little mouse hears that story, he thinks that after all, hay and corn-stalks are not such very bad eating.
One time he and his mother did go down stairs and got into a barrel full of ears of corn, and would you believe it, a great lady came and looked at them! The mother crept down under the corn, but the little son was so surprised and so frightened that he could not move. But the lady went away without eating him up, and then he ran trembling to his mother, who listened kindly to the story of his fears. He said that the lady was bigger and more wicked than a hundred cats. But his mother assured him that in this country ladies do not eat mice.—Vermont Journal.
TO BE CONTINUED
BY SISTER SEDDY.
There is an old mouse living with her youngest little son, between some of the boards of our barn-loft floor. It is a nice, snug, little hiding place, and they can step out any hour of the day to get a nibble at the sweet corn-stalks or the hay. But it is not so safe for them to go down stairs and eat the corn and oats, and other nice things which the horses and chickens eat. The little mouse often thinks his mother unkind when she will not let him go down, for he gets tired of the hay and stalks. But she tells him how the cat once caught her, and shows him a place in her side where the hair has never grown since the cat gave her a scratch. She got away from the cat, but she was sick-a-bed for a week after in the house of a friend near by. She could not get to her own home, she was so lame: and when at last she did get home, she found the four little fat baby mice she had left there, all dead with starvation. When the little mouse hears that story, he thinks that after all, hay and corn-stalks are not such very bad eating.
One time he and his mother did go down stairs and got into a barrel full of ears of corn, and would you believe it, a great lady came and looked at them! The mother crept down under the corn, but the little son was so surprised and so frightened that he could not move. But the lady went away without eating him up, and then he ran trembling to his mother, who listened kindly to the story of his fears. He said that the lady was bigger and more wicked than a hundred cats. But his mother assured him that in this country ladies do not eat mice.—Vermont Journal.
TO BE CONTINUED
What sub-type of article is it?
Fable
Prose Fiction
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Mouse Fable
Motherly Caution
Animal Tale
Moral Lesson
Barn Life
What entities or persons were involved?
By Sister Seddy.
Literary Details
Title
Carrie's Story.
Author
By Sister Seddy.
Key Lines
She Tells Him How The Cat Once Caught Her, And Shows Him A Place In Her Side Where The Hair Has Never Grown Since The Cat Gave Her A Scratch.
When The Little Mouse Hears That Story, He Thinks That After All, Hay And Corn Stalks Are Not Such Very Bad Eating.
But His Mother Assured Him That In This Country Ladies Do Not Eat Mice.—Vermont Journal.