05-MOUSE BONES AND RAT SKELETONS

MOUSE BONES AND RAT SKELETONS I left the room and scurried down the hall. Soon I came to a wooden door with a sign on it. It read: KITCHEN I went in. The place was huge. You could cook dinner for a hundred mice in this place. There was a huge wood-burning stove, pots

and pans of every size and shape, and a massive fridge. I opened a side door and found myself in a cellar. I spotted some cans of tuna fish, some dried meat, and a big block of SWISS CHEESE. It smelled delicious! So the castle was inhabited after all! But by whom? That was still a mystery. I crept back to the wood-burning stove, A huge copper pot hung inside the fireplace. It had a picture of a snarling cat engraved on it. I looked closer and noticed a strange white object lying inside the pot.

I picked it up to study it. "Sour cheese chunks!" It was a bone... a mouse bone! I flung the bone back into the pot Then I looked around, terrified. What was this place? I decided I didn't want to stick around to find out. I had to make a run for it before I ended up like that poor mouse in the pot! No fur, just bone! In a panic. I flung open the first door I saw. Behind it was a closet, I wish I could say I found a puffy chef's hat and matching apron in that closet. My uncle Hotpaw wears this silly apron at our annual family barbecues. It has a picture of a smiling mouse juggling kittens on it. But there was no apron in this closet. Instead, there was the...

...SKELETON OF A HUMONGOUS RAT! Oh, how I wished I was home!