Narration: Once a mouse

TITLE: Once a mouse
AUTHOR: Marcia Brown

NARRATION: There was once a mouse who got chased by a hawk and then a man picked up and took him home. The man was a hermit. The hermit turned the mouse into a cat because the cat was trying to eat the mouse. And then a dog tried to eat the mouse-cat so then the hermit turned the cat into a dog. And then the dog got chased by a tiger, then the dog got turned into a royal tiger and roamed about the forest. He thought he was so pretty and he bragged and bragged and bragged. The hermit said you are a too braggy, I am going to turn you back into a mouse. The tiger thought "I'm going to eat him." But the hermit read his mind and said "Go back into the forest and be a mouse again." He turned him back into a mouse and the mouse never came back. The end.

REVIEW: I did not like this story because I think the mouse never came back because somebody ate up the mouse. I learned a hermit sits far away from other people and thinks, thinks, thinks, thinks.