Literature

The Mice and the Swans

There were once two little mice who lived on a farm. They were friends with all the farm animals. One day, on their trip home, they stumbled upon two round, shiny, seemingly perfect eggs. They rolled them into their mouse hole and made a cute little nest out of straw for them. Every night, they both huddled around the eggs to keep them warm.

These little mice loved the eggs. Until, eventually, they started to crack. They rocked and cracked making sputtering noises until one little chick popped out. The other egg was still hatching, but one of the pieces of eggshell popped off and hit one of the mice in the eye. The mouse started screaming, and the other mouse rushed it out of the mouse hole, quickly trying to get the eggshell out. The mother of the two chicks ducked in quickly to get her chicks out of the chaos. The mice were still fleeing, with the injured one screaming at the swan and cursing her all the way to the barn.

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