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The Mouse and The Moonbeam, by Eugene Field
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Title: The Mouse and The Moonbeam
Author: Eugene Field
Release Date: January 4, 2009 [EBook #27697]
Language: English
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THE MOUSE AND THE MOONBEAM
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THE MOUSE AND THE MOONBEAM
By Eugene Field
NEW YORK 1919
Copyright, 1912
by Charles Scribner's Sons
Through the courtesy of Charles Scribner's Sons, we were permitted to print this small private edition.
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THE MOUSE AND THE MOONBEAM
Whilst you were sleeping, little Dear-my-soul, strange things happened; but that I saw and heard them, I should never have believed them. The clock stood, of course, in the corner, a moonbeam floated idly on the floor, and a little mauve mouse came from the hole in the chimney corner and frisked and scampered in the light of the moonbeam upon the floor. The little mauve mouse was particularly merry; sometimes she danced upon two legs and sometimes upon four legs, but always very daintily an