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diff --git a/27239-h/27239-h.htm b/27239-h/27239-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d18c85c --- /dev/null +++ b/27239-h/27239-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1618 @@ + +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>Little Downy</title> + +<meta http-equiv = "Content-Type" content = "text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> + +<style type = "text/css"> + +body {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 15%; color: inherit; +background-color: #FFE;} + +pre {color: inherit; background-color: #FFF; padding: 1em; +border: 1px solid #963;} /* for PG boilerplate */ + +div.maintext {padding-top: 2em; padding-bottom: 2em; font-size: 112%;} +div.page {padding-top: 2em; padding-bottom: 2em;} + +hr {width: 80%; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;} +hr.mid {width: 40%;} +hr.micro {width: 10%;} + +a.tag {text-decoration: none; padding-left: .25em;} +a:link, a:visited {color: #630; background-color: inherit;} +div.mynote a {text-decoration: none;} + +h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {text-align: center; font-style: normal; +font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin-top: .5em; +margin-bottom: .5em;} + +h1 {font-size: 200%;} +h2 {font-size: 175%;} +h3 {font-size: 150%;} +h4 {font-size: 120%;} +div.maintext h4 {margin-top: 1em;} +h5 {font-size: 100%;} +h6 {font-size: 80%;} + +p {margin-top: .5em; margin-bottom: 0em; line-height: 1.2;} + +p.illustration {text-align: center; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em;} +p.center {text-align: center;} + +p.footnote {margin: 2em; font-size: 92%;} + + +/* text formatting */ + +span.firstword {font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;} + +.smallcaps {font-variant: small-caps;} +.smaller {font-size: 88%;} +.larger {font-size: 112%;} + +/* correction popup */ + +ins.correction {text-decoration: none; border-bottom: thin dotted red;} + +span.pagenum {position: absolute; right: 2%; font-size: 88%; +font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: right; +text-indent: 0em;} + +div.mynote {background-color: #EED; color: #000; border: 3px ridge #963; +font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 90%; margin: 1em 5%; +padding: .5em 1em 1em;} + +</style> +</head> + +<body> + + +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Little Downy, by Catharine Parr Traill + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Little Downy + The History of A Field-Mouse + +Author: Catharine Parr Traill + +Release Date: November 12, 2008 [EBook #27239] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE DOWNY *** + + + + +Produced by Louise Hope, David Edwards, Marcia Brooks & +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdpcanada.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class = "mynote"> +<p>Missing quotation marks have been left unchanged for flavor. Obvious +typographical errors have been corrected. They are marked in the text +with <ins class = "correction" title = "like this">mouse-hover +popups</ins>, along with some possible errors that were not +corrected.</p> + +<p>Spellings such as <b>recal</b> and <b>befel</b>, and <b>eat</b> as a +past-tense form, are unchanged. The author almost always uses <b>lay</b> +(present) for <b>lie</b>, and <b>laid</b> for <b>lay</b> (past); no +attempt was made to correct these forms.</p> +</div> + +<div class = "page"> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<a name = "cover" id = "cover"> </a> +<img src = "images/cover.jpg" width = "361" height = "580" +alt = "front cover"> +</p> + +<p class = "center"><a href = "#covertext">Front Cover Text</a></p> + +</div> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/frontis.jpg" width = "321" height = "473" +alt = "see caption"><br> + <br> +<span class = "larger"><i>Mrs. Clifford relating to her son Alfred,<br> +the history of the Field-Mouse.</i></span></p> + +<div class = "page"> + +<h2><b>LITTLE DOWNY;</b></h2> + +<h6>OR,</h6> + +<h3>THE HISTORY</h3> + +<h6>OF</h6> + +<h1><b>A FIELD-MOUSE.</b></h1> + +<hr class = "micro"> + +<h4>A MORAL TALE.</h4> + +<hr class = "micro"> + +<h6>EMBELLISHED</h6> + +<h4>WITH TWELVE COLORED ENGRAVINGS.</h4> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/mouse.jpg" width = "284" height = "93" +alt = "mouse"></p> + +<h5>LONDON:<br> +<i>Printed for</i><br> +<span class = "smallcaps">A. K. NEWMAN and Co. +LEADENHALL-STREET.</span><br> +1822.</h5> + +</div> + +<div class = "maintext"> + +<span class = "pagenum">5</span> +<h5>THE LIFE AND INTERESTING ADVENTURES</h5> + +<h6>OF A</h6> + +<h3><b>FIELD MOUSE.</b></h3> + +<p class = "center"> +<img src = "images/dec_line.gif" width = "65" height = "11" +alt = "----"></p> + +<p>“<span class = "firstword">What</span> is my little Alfred +crying for?” asked his mother, Mrs. Clifford, as she entered the +room where Alfred stood weeping by the table. <!-- open quote missing +--> Come here, and tell me what is the matter with you.”</p> + +<p>Alfred slowly advanced towards his mother, and wiped away his tears +with her apron. Alfred was but a little boy, or he would not have cried +for such a simple thing as he did.</p> + +<p>“Well, Alfred, and what is it?” asked his kind mamma.</p> + +<p>“Why, mamma, you know that nice plum cake you gave me for +saying my lesson well; I had put it in the cupboard, as I did not +want to eat it then, and I came just now to take a little nibble at it; +and when I opened the closet-door to look for it, there was an ugly +brown mouse in the closet, and hardly a scrap of my cake left; that +greedy thing had eaten it all but a few crumbs.” And here +Alfred’s tears flowed afresh.</p> + +<p>“I am very sorry, my dear child, that the mouse has eaten your +cake; but still, I do not think it +<span class = "pagenum">6</span> +was worth shedding so many tears about: you must learn to bear such +trifling disappointments with more patience. I dare say, the mouse +has eaten my sugar and cake, but I shall not cry if it has.”</p> + +<p>“I am sure it is enough to make any one cry, (said Alfred). +I only wish, (added he, his eyes sparkling with anger), that I +could have killed the little beast for stealing my cake.”</p> + +<p>“Now, Alfred, I am ashamed of you,” said his mother +gravely.</p> + +<p>Alfred could, however, think of nothing but the loss of his cake, and +begged his mother to let the mouse-trap be set to catch the mischievous +intruder.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Clifford was very sorry to hear her little son talk so, and she +represented to him his cruelty in wanting to take away the life of a +poor mouse only for having satisfied its hunger.</p> + +<p>“But, mamma, mice do a deal of mischief, (said Alfred), and +ought to be killed; for that mouse will soon eat up all your +sugar.”</p> + +<p>“But, Alfred; I know a certain two-legged mouse, who, if I left +the key in my store-closet, would eat more sugar in one minute than this +poor little animal could in an hour.”</p> + +<p>Alfred hung his head at this reproof, for it was but a day or two +since he was detected at the sugar dish; and he soon after left the +room.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">7</span> +<p>Mrs. Clifford was much grieved that her little Alfred shewed so much +inclination to be cruel and revengeful, two qualities so dangerous in a +child, or in any one; and she knew that, unless it was timely checked, +it would grow into a habit. Harsh means, she did not like to adopt; and +so she at last thought of a method which seemed likely to succeed. She +was well aware of the inconvenience of having mice in her cupboard, as +they not only commit great depredations, but soil every thing they +touch; so, as she was forced to kill the mouse, she hoped to turn its +death to a good use. Therefore, the next time Alfred entered the room, +she asked him if he was still resolved to have the mouse killed. +“Yes, mamma, (replied Alfred), it had no right to eat my +cake.”</p> + +<p>“Very well; I will have the mouse-trap set; but observe, +Alfred, whether before the day is past, you do not tell me you are sorry +for its death.”</p> + +<p>“Oh! no; that I am sure I sha’n’t,” replied +Alfred, and Mrs. Clifford ordered the trap to be set.</p> + +<p>Early the next morning, when Mrs. Clifford came down stairs and went +to the closet, she beheld her poor little prisoner dead in his wire +cage. “See, Alfred, (said she), here is the poor mouse +dead!”</p> + +<p>Alfred at first was glad; but when he saw what a pretty one it was, +he was sorry, but contented himself by saying to the dead mouse, +“If you had +<span class = "pagenum">8</span> +not been in the cupboard doing so much mischief, you would not have been +killed!”</p> + +<p>When he had said his lesson, his mother said to him, “Now, +Alfred, shall I tell you a story?” Alfred was very fond of hearing +a story, if it was not too long, and he asked his mother, if this would +be a long one.</p> + +<p>“I don’t wish to tire you, (said his mother), so I will +only tell you part of it this morning. <!-- close quote missing --> +Alfred fetched his little stool, and having placed it at her side, fixed +his eyes on her face while she related</p> + + +<h4>THE HISTORY OF A FIELD MOUSE.</h4> + +<p>“<span class = "firstword">In</span> a wheat-stack, in Farmer +Ball’s yard, lived an old mouse with her family, consisting of +five little ones, the most worthy of which was a pretty brown mouse, +called Downy, because her fur was longer and softer than either of her +brothers and sisters, and besides being the prettiest, she was likewise +the wisest and best among them.</p> + +<p>“Her mother was by birth a field-mouse; she had been carried +among the sheaves of wheat into the stack, with a great many more +field-mice; and had lived there, at the expence of farmer Ball, ever +since.</p> + +<p>“It was one fine clear morning, in the middle of March, that, +as Downy was peeping her little nose out of the straw at the edge of the +stack, to breathe a little fresh air, she saw the farmer with his men +<span class = "pagenum">9</span> +enter the yard, and heard him tell the people that he would have the +stack taken into the barn and thrashed, and desired them to bid Fen, the +ratcatcher, come, and bring all his dogs with him.</p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p09.jpg" width = "329" height = "296" +alt = "mice in the farmyard"> + +<p>“Poor Downy was in a terrible fright at hearing this; she ran +to acquaint her mother with it; and asked her what they had best do; but +her mother, who was but a foolish mouse, bade her not be under the least +alarm, for she was persuaded the farmer did not mean to take it in just +then; and added, it was time enough to think of it when the men began; +<span class = "pagenum">10</span> +she told Downy to go to bed with the rest of her brothers and sisters, +and not to be afraid.</p> + +<p>“But poor Downy was in great trouble about what she should do, +and could not sleep for thinking of the sad fate which threatened them; +she awakened her companions to consult with them; but her sisters only +laughed at her fear, and said, they would never leave a place where they +were so well off; and where they could get plenty of good corn, only for +the trouble of eating it. Her brothers were of the same opinion, and +added, they could run so swiftly, they were sure they could soon get +away into the field; but they expected they should live very quietly yet +for some time.</p> + +<p>“Poor foolish little things! they did not think the danger was +so near; but they were awakened the next morning by the farmer’s +men unroofing the stack, and they now wished they had hearkened to the +prudent advice of their sister Downy.</p> + +<p>“Poor little Downy’s heart almost died within her, when +she heard the barking of the dogs, and the hallooing of the men; how +much rather would she have been in the field, than in the warm stack! +for she heard the men drawing near to the place where they lay; and they +were all terribly afraid; and their mother, the old mouse, would go to +see how far the danger was from them. Imprudent creature! she ventured +too near; for a great black dog on the +<span class = "pagenum">11</span> +top of the stack, the moment the men raised the sheaf where she was, +snapped her up in an instant.</p> + +<p>“Nothing was now to be heard but shrieks and cries from every +side of the stack; and the men drew nearer and nearer: Downy heard the +last cries of her brethren; the sheaf where she had taken refuge, was +already on the point of being raised, when she sprang through an opening +in the side, and was just going to run down, when she beheld a great dog +directly under her!</p> + +<p>“Poor Downy gave herself up as lost, and awaited in trembling +anxiety her fate: for some moments she clung to the outside of the +stack, not daring to descend, yet fearing still more to stay; when, +luckily for our poor little mouse, some one called the dog, who +instantly ran off; and Downy, darting from the stack, had just time to +gain a place of security beneath a clod of earth, where she lay shaking +with fear, not daring to look up for some minutes.</p> + +<p>“She shuddered with horror when she heard the dying groans of +her friends in the stack, and the shouts of the men encouraging the +dogs; many a poor mouse did she see running away in hopes of making its +escape, but pursued and devoured by the dogs.</p> + +<p>“Several times poor Downy had like to have been discovered by +the dogs, or crushed beneath the horses’ feet, but she crouched +very close to the ground, and lay so still, she hardly breathed, so +great was her +<span class = "pagenum">12</span> +fear; at length she watched an opportunity, when no one was near, to +quit her retreat, and ran with all the speed she could, not once daring +to pause or look behind, till she gained the farmer’s orchard; +where she laid among the long grass, panting, and half dead with terror +and fatigue; she hid herself toward night under the roots of an old +apple-tree; for she was very much afraid of a great white owl which she +had seen flying near.</p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p12.jpg" width = "330" height = "292" +alt = "mouse hiding from owl"> + +<p>“It was in vain for her to lament the sad fate of her mother +and brethren; she could not recal them to life; and Downy was thankful +that she had +<span class = "pagenum">13</span> +escaped so well; but the cold weather was not gone yet, and poor little +Downy knew she had nothing to eat and no warm house to live in; but must +make herself one; and she was afraid she should be starved to death with +hunger, or die with cold. These thoughts occupied her mind, till she +fell asleep, nor did she awake next morning till quite late, and found +herself very hungry. She first peeped out of her hole, and seeing +nothing near to hurt her, she ventured forth in search of some food; she +rummaged among the dead leaves for some time, without success, till +chance led her to a row of nut-trees; here, after a diligent search, she +had the good fortune to discover three nuts, one of which she eat, being +very hungry, and the rest she carried home to her tree; but Downy knew +they would not last long, and so thought it best to try and get more, +she therefore deposited them safely away, and <ins class = "correction" +title = "text unchanged; 'set off' occurs only once">sat off</ins> to +look for more provisions; she spent nearly the whole day among the +nut-trees, but returned home only with one nut; and a shower of snow +falling, she was forced to return to her dwelling, and did not go out +any more that day, but laid still, and thought how she should make +herself a warm nest; for she was very cold here, having been used to the +close warm stack, where scarce any air entered. She eat very sparingly +of her nuts, saving as much as possible for the morrow, fearing lest the +snow should hinder +<span class = "pagenum">14</span> +her looking for more; but there had not fallen much, and in the morning, +the sun coming out quite bright, melted it all; and Downy left her tree +to look for something to line her nest with, and for more food. That +being the first object, she began to search for some first, and was more +fortunate than before, as she discovered several ears of corn, which had +been blown by the wind off the stack; she could hardly credit her good +fortune, when she beheld her store and saw it all safely lodged in her +granary. Her next care was to line her nest; for this purpose, (though +it was very cold and frosty) she collected all the bits of dried moss +and grass she could find, and carried them in her mouth to her new +habitation; she nibbled off the fibres which hung to the roots of the +tree, and dried weeds, and soon made her house quite warm and +comfortable.</p> + +<p>“She spent the remainder of the month of March, and the +beginning of April, in laying up stores of provision, and in enlarging +the inside of her house.</p> + +<p>“The Spring began with some beautiful warm days, and everything +looked cheerful and gay; the crocusses were all in flower, and the +primroses, and snow-drops, with some early violets. Downy was rejoiced +when she saw the daisies in the orchard begin to shew their white heads +above the grass, and she took many a frisk out to enjoy the sunshine, +and was quite happy and content.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">15</span> +<p>“One fine evening as she was returning to her house, she saw a +creature much like a weasel, only somewhat smaller, which she knew to be +a mousehunt, by what she had heard of them: he was prowling along close +by her tree, in hopes of catching her; he smelt about some time, and at +last went in. Poor little Downy was in a sad fright; she knew not what +to do, for she saw his head peeping out of her hole, and his cunning +black eye looking round in every direction.</p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p15.jpg" width = "332" height = "295" +alt = "mouse hiding from weasel"> + +<p>“When little Downy saw the mousehunt take possession +<span class = "pagenum">16</span> +of her house, she knew she must not venture there again, and was in +great distress, as to where she should pass the night securely; at last +she found a hole in the bank, and into this she crept, though very much +alarmed for fear of her enemy’s discovering her; she dared not go +to sleep at all that night; nor did she stir out next day, till forced +by hunger to seek for food; she did not see any thing of the mousehunt, +but she resolved to leave the orchard and seek a safer spot for her new +habitation.</p> + +<p>“Accordingly, next day, she <ins class = "correction" title = +"text unchanged; 'set off' occurs only once">sat off</ins> to look for a +proper situation; she passed through the orchard hedge into a beautiful +green meadow, all covered with daisies, red clover, cowslips, and golden +buttercups. Here Downy resolved to find a place to live in: and she +whisked about under the tall heads of the cowslips and buttercups; at +last she fixed on a little green mound, such an one as you, Alfred, call +a fairy’s throne, and here she began to scratch with her fore +feet, till she had made a little opening in the turf, and she used such +diligence, that before night she had made a hole large enough to sleep +in, and though it was not lined or so warm as her house under the old +apple-tree, yet she slept so sound that she never awoke till the sun had +risen quite high in the heavens.</p> + +<p>“Downy jumped up in a hurry when she saw how late it was: the +birds had been up hours before her, +<span class = "pagenum">17</span> +and were all busily employed building their nests; every bush resounded +with the songs of these little creatures while at work, and Downy knew +she must not be idle, for she had much to do; being very hungry she +first went to an oak which grew at some little distance, and here she +found plenty of acorns among the leaves—of these she made a hearty +meal, and carried some to where she was at work. With a great deal of +care and labour she dug her house and made it quite round and smooth, as +she went on, carrying it in a slanting direction along the hollow side +of the hill. It cost poor Downy many a long day’s hard work before +her house was completed, and many a weary nibble before she had finished +lining the inside of it. Her next care was to make a secure room for +stowing away her winter stores; for this purpose, she made an opening on +one side of her first room, and carried a passage along some little +distance, and then formed her store chamber, which she was a long time +making, but it was at length completed perfectly to her own +satisfaction, having rendered it a most convenient granery. She had now +nothing to do but find feed for herself, and play, but Downy never came +home without bringing something useful for her house, either a bit of +straw or hay, a little tuft of moss, or the dried stalk of a +flower; these she cut with her teeth into little bits, and laid in her +nest to make it soft and warm.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">18</span> +<p>“Downy was now quite happy, her <ins class = "correction" title += "text reads 'monnd'">mound</ins> was all covered with flowers, fine +cowslips, and butter-cups, and tuft of daisies grew close to the +entrance of her house, and served to hide it from the eyes of owls, +mousehunts, or any of the enemies to poor mice; and Downy thought +herself quite secure from all dangers: of a beautiful moonlight night +she used just to peep out from under the daisies, and look at the dew +drops all shining like diamonds in the moon-beams, and once she whisked +on to the top of her green mount, and began to play among the flowers, +but she was alarmed by the sight of a small dog running through the high +grass, and she quickly retreated into her house; nor was she so +imprudent again as venture out after it grew dusk. And now the grass +grew long and high, the flowers began to lose their beauty, and turn +brown; every thing proclaimed the approach of summer.</p> + +<p>“The month of June began, and the mowers came to cut down the +grass; Downy was fearful that they would molest her, and spoil her +house, when they came near the little mount; but she trusted to the +chance that they might not discover it, and she laid quite close all +day.</p> + +<p>“But poor little Downy was very sorry to see all the nice high +grass and pretty flowers cut down to the ground, those flowers which had +sheltered her from the sun and rain for so long.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">19</span> +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p19.jpg" width = "337" height = "304" +alt = "mouse gathering nuts"> + +<p>“‘And now, (thought she), I shall certainly be caught by +the great white owl; for he will be able to see me now; and I +can’t hide myself under the long grass and dandelions, as I used +to do, for they are all cut down and spoiled.’—Poor little +Downy was in a great fright all the time that the hay-makers were at +work, and when she found them coming near her house, with their great +pitchforks in their hands, she remembered the fate of her mother, and +all her brothers and sisters in the stack, and she thought that she +should be safer in the +<span class = "pagenum">20</span> +bank of the garden hedge; which was not far off. She watched an +opportunity when no one was looking, and hastened away to the hedge as +fast as she could, and creeping in laid quite snug; she remained in the +bank the whole day, and enjoyed herself more than could be expected, for +the weather was extremely pleasant, and there was a fine bed of ripe +wild strawberries close by, which smelt quite refreshing. Though Downy +dared not venture back into the field for fear of being killed (for mice +are but timid little things) yet she was very happy all that day; and +when she saw the men leave the field with the pitchforks which had +caused her so much terror, she returned to her nest, and slept that +night on some new hay which she had nibbled, and brought into her house +to lay on. As soon as it was day, away ran careful Downy to the bank; +she peeped through the hedge, and saw every thing in the garden looking +very pleasant. So Miss Downy thought she should like to spend this day +in the beautiful shady garden; in she went, and soon found it as +charming as it looked; for the garden abounded in plenty of good things; +there were peas, and beans, and potatoes, and young carrots, and beds of +ripe red strawberries. Downy did nothing but eat and enjoy herself the +whole day, and did not think of returning home that day, nor for many +days afterwards, for she said to herself—‘What +occasion is +<span class = "pagenum">21</span> +there for me to go back to the meadow, where I have so much trouble to +get food, for here is more than I could ever eat, and I have no trouble +in getting it at all—and I am sure no mischief will happen to me +here!’ So she gave no thought of her nice house in the field, but +amused herself by eating all the day long; till she grew quite fat, and +Downy thought she was happier than ever she had been in the field, and +she grew very indolent, for she now began to think that there was no +occasion for her to work, but she said to herself, she would play all +day; and here she shewed herself to be a very simple little mouse, (as +it proved in what befel her). She had been living in the garden for +nearly a month, when one fine sunshiny day, she had ventured nearer to +the house than usual, and was lying reposing herself in the sun by a +clod of dirt, near a rain-water butt, when she was disturbed by a noise +near her, and to her horror she beheld the black cat with a fine kitten +by her side, proceeding down the walk where she lay; to escape was +almost impossible, even the attempt was vain, and hapless Downy gave +herself up for lost. A month back, and she might have trusted to +her own speed for escaping—but, alas! Downy had so long been used +to do nothing but eat and enjoy herself, that she was no longer able to +run as swiftly as she used to do; she dared not even move a step, and +sat in an agony of hopeless despair.</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">22</span> +<p>“Downy now lamented her folly in having left her safe retreat +in the meadow: what would she now have given to have been in her own +little house under the mole hill? and she bitterly regretted ever having +been tempted to quit it, for there no cats ever came, and there she had +lived in innocence and happiness, whilst now she was doomed to fall a +victim to the merciless claws of a hungry cat, who would devour her +alive: she lay breathless! not a limb did she move, scarce did she even +draw her breath, for the cat approached within a yard of the spot where +she laid, and——” “Oh! poor Downy! (cried +Alfred,) how sorry I am!—but, mamma, did that wicked cat kill her? +do, dear mamma, make haste and tell me.”—“Why, +Alfred,” said his mother, “you would not wait for me to tell +you whether she was killed or not: I am sure you could not feel +sorry for the death of a <i>nasty brown mouse</i>; you hate mice, they +are such little thieves.”—Little Alfred blushed at what his +mother said, for he remembered they were his own words, and said to his +mother, “Dear mamma, I think I will never wish for the death +of any thing again, and I am very sorry I had that mouse killed; +I will never kill another mouse, if it was to eat all the cakes you +mean to give me when I am a good boy.” Mrs. Clifford not help +smiling at her little boy, but went on.—</p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p23.jpg" width = "334" height = "297" +alt = "cat with kitten"> + +<p>“The cat, as I said before, was close to the clod of +<span class = "pagenum">23</span> +earth on which luckless Downy stood, and when she believed her death +certain, she had the inexpressible joy of finding that her motionless +posture had been the means of saving her from the vigilant eyes of the +cat, who passed on quite unconcerned without taking any notice of her +prey. For an instant Downy could scarce credit her own eyes when she saw +her enemy pass on; but fearing that if puss should return, she should +not again escape so miraculously, she darted away as she hoped unseen, +but, silly little thing! she had better have laid where she was, for the +kitten beheld her as she ran, and sprung upon her. Poor +<span class = "pagenum">24</span> +Downy felt her claws, but exerting all her speed, she flew to the +hedge—this friendly hedge which had so often been her refuge, and +darting among the tangled roots of the hawthorn and ivy, left her +pursuers far behind, and, exhausted with terror and fatigue, remained +trembling and panting till she was half dead. Still she heard the mews +of the disappointed kitten, and the angry purrs of the old cat—who +sat watching about the bank for more than an hour, waiting to seize her +if she ventured forth,<a class = "tag" name = "tag" id = "tag" href = +"#note">*</a> but that poor Downy was not in a condition to do, for her +poor back still ached with the bruise the kitten had given her, and she +felt in such a panic, she could not have stirred a step if she had seen +a dozen cats. For two whole days poor little Downy thought she should +have died, and when she was a little better and began to feel hungry, +there was nothing for her to eat but hay seeds and ivy leaves, or the +roots of the trees, and Downy, who had of late been used to such good +fare, could not bear to eat such dry unpalatable food as this was.</p> + +<p>“When she used to spend her time in labour and +<span class = "pagenum">25</span> +industry, she eat the hardest fare with an excellent appetite, and was +thankful and contented with the least bit of any thing she got, but now +she turned away disgusted at the coarse food, and it was not until +pinched by hunger, that she would eat any of it. And now Downy began to +consider within herself, whether it would not have been much better and +wiser for her to have returned back to her own house in the meadow, +instead of living so long in idleness and luxury; and Downy found that +idleness brings its own punishment sooner or later, for had she been at +home she would not have been so frightened by the cat, or nearly killed +by the kitten; or even if a cat had come near her nice nest, she would +have run away much faster than she did now, for being then smaller and +thinner, she was much nimbler; nor was her daintiness the least evil +that attended her long indulgence, and this she felt more severely now +she was ill and could not go out to find good food; she had suffered so +much with pain and terror, that she resolved never to go into the garden +again, excepting to get provisions when in want. With a sad and penitent +heart Downy once more returned to her old habitation, but, alas! what +was her grief on beholding it a complete ruin; her nice warm nest all +<ins class = "correction" title = "text reads 'destoyed'">destroyed</ins>, +and the pretty green mound quite spoiled! Downy was sadly vexed, for +the cruel hay-makers had with their pitchforks torn open the +<span class = "pagenum">26</span> +turf and scattered her soft bed all round on the grass. She stood gazing +with anguish on the desolate scene before her; here was all her spring +work entirely ruined, and now she was ill and had no where to lay her +head. ‘Ah!’ thought she, ‘if I had not spent so much +time in doing nothing but eating and playing, I should have escaped +the danger of being caught by the cat, and should not have been hurt by +the kitten, besides which I think by this time I might have made up my +nest, and have been quite comfortable again. <!-- close quote missing +--> She was hardly able to work, and what was far worse, she felt very +great reluctance to begin her laborious task, so much harm had her +living so long in indolence done her, as it does to every one who +indulges in it. Remember, my little Alfred, that idleness is the root of +all evil, as you may see in the case of Downy:—now which do you +think was the happiest and best,—careful and industrious Downy +making her house, and busily procuring food for herself against the +winter,—or careless idle Downy doing nothing but playing and +enjoying herself in the garden, eating the fruit, and sleeping among the +flowers? now tell me, which do you like best of the two?” Alfred +considered for a minute or two, and then said, “Why, dear mamma, +though I should have liked to have eaten the nice things in the garden, +and lived among the flowers, yet I see that it would have been better +for Downy if she had always remained in the +<span class = "pagenum">27</span> +field and worked hard; but I am afraid I should have been as silly as +Downy, and not liked work.”</p> + +<p>“That is what I was afraid of, therefore, my dear child, +I thought it best to shew you how wrong she was in indulging +herself in that manner; and be assured that, whoever does so, will fall +into <ins class = "correction" title = "text reads 'misfortue'">misfortune</ins>.</p> + +<p>“Necessity obliged Downy at last to overcome her extreme +reluctance to work, and she once more began to look out for a proper +place for her new habitation; she visited all the green mounds in the +meadow, but alas! they were occupied by the ant, and poor Downy was +quite out of patience—and at last she was, though with reluctance, +forced to take up her lodgings in the side of the garden bank, quite at +the farther end, where no cats ever came, and at last, finding it was to +her own interest to work, she resolved not to be idle any more, and +laboured as hard as ever she had done, and soon completed her new +dwelling, having made it a most commodious habitation, in which she +lived very happily all the summer. When the harvest time arrived, then +was Downy very busy; she went into a neighbouring wheat field, and there +she made a good harvest for herself, and laid in a handsome store of +grain for her winter supply. In her journeys to the corn-fields she met +many mice, who, like her, were gathering in their winter stock of +provisions; but Downy would not stay in the corn-fields, because she +remembered +<span class = "pagenum">28</span> +the fate of her nest while she was gone in the garden, so she came home +very regularly every night.</p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p28.jpg" width = "331" height = "294" +alt = "two mice"> + +<p>“Nothing of any consequence happened to Miss Downy till the +latter end of the Autumn; for some days she had missed her provisions, +but could not account for it in any way, and was at a loss to know who +it could be that devoured the fruits of her daily labour, but one +morning when she returned from gleaning in the stubble-fields, she was +greatly surprised, on entering her house, to behold a young stranger +busily employed in breakfasting in her granery; she +<span class = "pagenum">29</span> +stopped at the entrance of her house to examine her visitor, and was +struck by the beauty of his form; he was of a reddish colour, his hair +very long and thick, his breast and fore-feet of a pale buff, and his +belly white; he had a nice round face, and small oval ears, with quick +lively brown eyes and long handsome black whiskers; in short, he was the +prettiest mouse Downy had ever seen, though he was a sad little thief, +and had eaten a great deal of her store. He appeared at first much +disconcerted at being disturbed and discovered in his depredation, and +looked round on every side for an opening to escape at, but none +appearing, he stood still, and scratched his ear with one of his hind +feet, assuming as unconcerned an air as he could possibly put on; Downy +was not sorry she had discovered who was the thief, but she soon forgave +him, though she could not help thinking he was a very dishonest mouse to +come every day and rob her as he had done, but he was so pretty, and +made so humble an apology for his intruding into her <ins class = +"correction" title = "text reads 'kouse'">house</ins>, that she could +not find it in her heart to be angry with him long, and they soon became +very good friends, and at last he proposed her taking him as a partner, +which the simple Downy agreed to without hesitation, and shared her +house and provisions with the handsome young stranger, who behaved with +great decorum for some time, and was very careful to mind what Downy +said to him, +<span class = "pagenum">30</span> +but at last he began to throw off his restraint, and was often getting +into mischief in spite of the sage advice of Downy, who took great pains +to warn him from such evil practices; but Silket would frisk in the +garden, robbing the newly-planted bean and pea crops with the greatest +audacity, not minding what careful Downy said, who represented to him +the danger he run of being killed by cats, or mousehunts, or caught in +traps; but Silket, like a naughty mouse as he was, only laughed and made +light of her fears; and when at last she appeared vexed at his +disobedience, he promised never to go into the garden again; but, like +many more, he broke his promise directly he was out of her sight; and +beside this, he was sadly idle, and was I am sorry to say, much fonder +of play than work, and Downy was obliged to remonstrate with him on such +bad behaviour, and said, ‘Silket, how can you expect me to work +for both you and myself? you are a sad partner. <!-- close quote missing +--> Silket was very humble, and promised to be more industrious for the +future, and that very afternoon he ransacked a new crop of peas, which +the gardener had sown that day, and came home laden with the spoils; +next day he brought <ins class = "correction" title = "missing word 'a'?">home hoard</ins> +of nuts from the garden, and Downy thought if he would but continue so +good, she should be very happy, for her Silket was a very pretty +creature, and she was very fond of him. But pretty creatures are not +always the best, as she +<span class = "pagenum">31</span> +soon found to her cost, for when the weather set in cold, then Mr. +Silket refused to work, or even to stir out of the house, but lay rolled +round like a ball in the soft hay, and slept, only just getting up to +eat; and Downy was much grieved, for she feared their stock of food +would never last out the winter, if he did not help her make some +addition to it, but Silket begged her not to be under any concern, for +there was plenty for them both; and on her again expressing her fears on +the subject, he gave her two or three severe bites on her ear, and +squeaked most vehemently, shewing his anger at being found fault with, +and then laid down again with a sulky air of displeasure; while poor +Downy almost broken-hearted, slowly and full of sorrow, left her house, +and strolled along the side of the bank quite disconsolate, and she +resolved never to go back again to her ungrateful husband, who had +treated her so unkindly, but leave him in quiet possession of her +dwelling.</p> + +<p>“Simple little Downy! she might have known beforehand how he +would have treated her, as she was so well acquainted with his +propensity to stealing, and she was a very foolish mouse to take for a +partner one who shewed, from the first, that he liked better to play +about and steal, than to labour and get an honest living. Downy ought to +have considered all this, but she thought him so pretty, that she forgot +all his +<span class = "pagenum">32</span> +misdeeds, and very imprudently shared her food and house with him. It is +true, that he promised very fair, and said he would work for her, and +that she should have nothing to do but just to eat, and sleep, and play; +<ins class = "correction" title = "text has '(and Downy who'">and Downy +(who</ins> did not think that such a pretty soft creature could tell so +many stories) believed all he said, and this was the consequence of her +imprudence.</p> + +<p>“So you see, Alfred, that we must not always judge by +appearances, because I know rather a pretty creature, with bright blue +eyes, who, like Silket, can steal, and tell fibs, and who likes to play +better than learn a lesson and read.” Alfred coloured up, for he +knew all along that his mother meant he was like Silket; so he felt a +little ashamed, and did not make any answer; and his mother continued +her story.</p> + +<p>“Poor little Downy laid bewailing her sad misfortune in the +cold damp grass, determining never to go home to her little tyrant +again, so angry was she at his cruel conduct.—‘Ah! foolish +mouse that I was, (said she), why did not I continue to live by myself +when I was so happy! I might have known how he would have behaved +to me, but I will never return to him, he may enjoy by himself that food +which he loves so much more than he does me, ungrateful that he +is!’ In this manner she was uttering her complaints, when she +heard a soft padding step behind her, and a mournful noise made her turn +round, and +<span class = "pagenum">33</span> +she beheld her penitent Silket, (for it was him) who advancing with a +sorrowful air, humbly besought her forgiveness, and rubbed his velvet +cheek in an imploring manner against her’s; his lively brown eyes +were now troubled, and very sorrowful. Downy could not resist his +beseeching looks, but forgave him for all his past offences, and took +him once more into favour, on his promising to be good in future and +never to bite her ears or tail again. Silket was very sorry for his late +bad behaviour, and he resolved to be very good and do so no more, for he +did love Downy very much, though he loved himself better. He accompanied +her home with great affection, and they were happier for some weeks than +they had ever been before; he was so attentive and kind, and seemed to +study only to please her; he spent day after day in searching among the +dry leaves in the garden for filberts; and when he could not procure any +thing else, he brought her crocus roots, and carrots out of the +garden.</p> + +<p><!-- open quote missing --> One evening he had been out later than +usual, he did not see Downy’s bright eyes looking out from among +the dry leaves and moss for his return, and he was fearful some ill had +befallen her. As he approached the house, he thought he heard several +little squeaking sounds, and on entering his nest, found that Downy in +his absence had become the mother of four <ins class = "correction" +title = "error uncorrected because it was irresistible">ittle</ins> +helpless blind mice, which she was suckling<ins class = "correction" +title = ", for .">. </ins> +<span class = "pagenum">34</span> +Silket was overjoyed, he licked the little ones with much affection, and +behaved with the greatest tenderness to Downy; he presented her the +filbert he had brought home, and praised the beauty of his little +family, though none but himself could see that they possessed any, for +little mice are very ugly till they can open their eyes, and have got +fur on them; for like puppies, and kittens, and rabbits, they are all +born blind, and do not open their eyes for many days after.</p> + +<p><!-- open quote missing --> No mouse could behave better than Silket +now did; he would not suffer Downy to stir out in the cold, on any +account, for, though it was the latter end of March, the weather was +unusually severe, and the frost very hard; Silket was out almost the +whole day searching for nice food for Downy, and getting soft moss to +keep his young ones warm,—but one day he grieved Downy much and +did a deal of mischief,—he wanted something to cover his little +ones with, and what did he do, but went into the garden to the hedge +where Mrs. Ball had hung out her linen to dry, and the wicked Silket +gnawed and bit one of the old lady’s white aprons almost to +pieces, carrying home as many of the rags as his mouth would hold, to +his house. Downy was sadly vexed when she heard what he had been doing, +and she was forced to read him a very long lecture on being so +mischievous, while Mr. Mischief amused himself by laying the +<span class = "pagenum">35</span> +rags out to the greatest advantage, admiring the white quilt he had +brought home for his little ones’ bed, and secretly resolving to +go and fetch the remaining fragments, and though he saw how grave Downy +looked, he did not think he had done so much harm in biting the old +lady’s apron; so he cast a cunning eye at Downy, to see if she was +observing him, for he wanted sadly to get the rest of the apron<ins +class = "correction" title = ", invisible">, </ins>only he did not like +to disoblige her commands, and get another scolding; but she saw what he +was after, and she begged him not to go, for she said, she knew that +such mischievous ways would come to no good end, and that he would get +caught in a trap, or killed by some cat, or fall into some great danger, +‘And, (added she,) what should I do, Silket, left with these four +helpless little mice to provide for?’ Silket immediately saw the +impropriety of his conduct, and he never spoiled any more of good Mrs. +Ball’s linen, though he often came in the way of it. The poor old +lady was greatly disturbed at the misfortune which had befallen her best +muslin apron, and threatened to have the ratcatcher’s dogs and +ferrets to hunt the garden and the hedge, if any thing more was +destroyed; so that it was a good thing that Silket took Downy’s +advice in that respect, or he would certainly have been killed for his +pains.</p> + +<p>“At the end of three weeks the little mice began to be quite +lively, and to grow very pretty little creatures; +<span class = "pagenum">36</span> +they much resembled their father in his <ins class = "correction" title += "spelling unchanged">mischeivous</ins> inclinations, and it needed all +Downy’s prudent management to keep them in order, for they would +frisk out of their nest, and scud about in the meadow, going so for out +of sight, and staying so late, that Downy was in a great fright lest any +mishap should befall them, as to Silket, he seemed to take great delight +in their pranks.</p> + +<p>They would lay on the bank, enjoying themselves and basking in the +sun, almost all day long. When it was fine weather, sometimes, one +bolder than the rest would run up a little tree not more than a yard +high, and clinging to the top, look down with triumph on his companions; +then, if he heard the dead leaves shake, the timid little thing whisked +down, and away they all four scudded, hiding themselves in the holes of +the hedge, till they thought the danger past.</p> + +<p>Downy now began to feel the cares of a family, and she was often much +grieved at the disobedient behaviour of the little mice. Velvet was the +only good-behaved one, and she was bad enough in all reason. They were +incorrigible little thieves, which quality they inherited from their +father, for no sooner were their parents out of the way, than they found +their way to the granary, and though Downy and Silket were all day +busied in getting food for them, and fed them with the best of every +thing, the wicked +<span class = "pagenum">37</span> +little things stole the corn, and eat even more than they wanted; they +grew so fat and sleek and wanton, that all the field-mice in the meadow +declared they were quite spoiled, and Downy ought to keep them under +more restraint, and punish them when they behaved ill. As they grew +older they grew worse and worse; Downy had warned them of all the +dangers which they ran in roaming so far from home, and told them of the +cat that haunted the garden, and of the mousehunt, and the great white +owl, but these bad mice paid no attention to what their kind good mother +said to them.</p> + +<p>“Among other things, she begged them not to go near the brick +traps which the gardener had set among the beans and peas, to entice +simple mice to eat the bait, and then they were sure to be killed, by +the trap falling on them; but they did not regard those prudent counsels +in the least, and a day or two after, they all sallied out into the +garden, (with Whitefoot, their leader) in search of something nice. +After they had rummaged the ground under the nut-tree for some time +without finding a single nut, they came to a row of late-sown peas; +these they made a terrible havoc amongst, regardless of their +mother’s advice. They were going home, well pleased with their +regale, when, unluckily, Whitefoot espied a parcel of nice wheat, laid +out very carefully under a sort of brick house; now Whitefoot run all +round it +<span class = "pagenum">38</span> +and thought it stood too firm to be knocked down, and as he was rather +greedy, he determined to venture under, and eat up the wheat; he was in +such a hurry, for fear that either of his companions should come and +want to share his prize, that, in his haste, he pushed down a bit of a +stick which held the brick up—down it fell, and hapless Whitefoot +was crushed to death in an instant.</p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p38.jpg" width = "334" height = "296" +alt = "farmer giving dead mouse to cat"> + +<p>“This was the <ins class = "correction" title = "text unchanged">effects</ins> +of his disobedience to his mother.</p> + +<p>“The noise of the fallen brick alarmed the timid +<span class = "pagenum">39</span> +little mice; away they ran as fast as they could, nor did they once stop +to look behind to see what had become of their brother Whitefoot, who +was found next morning by the gardener, under the brick, and was given +to the black cat to eat. Now had he minded what his mother had told him +the day before, he would have been alive and frisking about with the +rest. See, Alfred, what comes of disobedience and greediness.” +said his mother. “Yes, mamma, (said Alfred) I will remember +how poor Whitefoot was served, and not disobey you, though you know, +I could not be killed by a brick trap as he was.” “No, +Alfred, but you might get hurt in a hundred different ways by going +where I bid you not—recollect when I had so often told you not to +play with the fire, how you burnt your hand, by lighting bits of paper; +and if I had not come in, you would have been burnt to death.” +“Yes, mamma, and it hurt me so much, I have never done it +since.” “No more would Whitefoot have gone near a trap +again, if he had only broken one of his limbs, instead of being killed, +but he should have minded what was said at first. But you shall hear how +the others behaved after his death.</p> + +<p>“Downy was much shocked at the death of her poor Whitefoot, and +she told the other little mice to take warning by their brother’s +sad fate, and not go near any more brick traps, but be contented with +the food +<span class = "pagenum">40</span> +which she and their father provided for them. This they promised to do, +and they were very sorry for the loss of Whitefoot, who was the most +nimble of them all, and at the head of all their pranks, for he was +usually the ring-leader and the most daring of the party.</p> + +<p>“For a few days they were more orderly, but their bad habits +returned again, and they forgot all their promises, and were as naughty +as ever they had been—even Silket was shocked at them, and was +forced to chastise the two most unruly, by biting their ears. Wilful run +away, and came to a most untimely death.—He invaded, one night, +a bee-hive, and made great havoc in the stores of honey, eating the +honey-combs, and destroying the work of the poor bees—but at last +he was punished severely, for the bees, enraged at his lawless conduct, +came in a body, and stung their enemy in a thousand different places, so +that, unable to escape, he died in great agony.”</p> + +<p>“And did bees ever sting a mouse to death in that manner, +mamma?” asked Alfred. “Yes, Alfred, and if you are a good +boy, I will read you a long account of bees, and how they build +their cells, and make their wax and honey.” “But, mamma, +there is nothing about their killing a mouse in it, is there?” +“Yes, my dear child, I will tell you all about it one day, +but let me finish my story first.”</p> + +<span class = "pagenum">41</span> +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p41.jpg" width = "332" height = "297" +alt = "owl catching mouse"> + +<p>“There were now only two young mice left, Velvet and Sprightly. +Velvet was so shocked at the bad end which her two brothers had come to, +that she resolved not to be naughty again, but try by her good conduct, +to make amends for her thoughtless behaviour—but when she told +Sprightly of her intentions, the wicked Sprightly ridiculed her, and +said she should go and seek her fortune in the meadow and garden, where +no one could scold her, and where she might do as she pleased; and with +this resolution she set off, and they never saw her again; for having +<span class = "pagenum">42</span> +no house to go to, the white owl saw her as he was flying out one +evening, and soon made an end of Miss Sprightly, who had better have +staid at home with Velvet, and her father and mother. Velvet was the +comfort and pride of her parents; she helped them in all their labours, +and assisted them in enlarging their house, and providing food against +the winter. As she encreased in goodness, she grew prettier, and every +one admired her, she was so clean, and her skin was as soft as satin, and looked quite bright and +glossy<ins class = "correction" title = ", for . at line-end: see following error">. </ins>Velvet +was generally up and abroad before sunrise<ins class = "correction" title = ". for , at line-end: see previous error">, </ins>and +enjoyed being out in the dew; she always returned home loaded with grain; +and they were all quite happy and comfortable; for Silket was very good, +and Downy had nothing to make her uncomfortable, being blessed with a +good husband and a good daughter.</p> + +<p>“But a sad accident happened which deprived poor Downy of all +means of providing for her wants, and gave Silket and Velvet the +greatest pain and uneasiness on her account. One day, Downy had been by +herself in the garden, and in passing under a gooseberry bush, she did +not see a trap which had been set to catch little birds, and it caught +one of her poor little feet, and she lay struggling in the greatest +pain, and shrieking lamentably—at last by a violent effort, she +got loose, but with the loss of one of her fore-feet. Sadly wounded, and +crying piteously, she at last +<span class = "pagenum">43</span> +gained her home, and Silket and Velvet found her exhausted with pain, +and almost dying; they were greatly grieved at the misfortune, and +lamented bitterly the sad fate of poor Downy, and they feared greatly +lest they should lose her, but good nursing and great care at last +restored her, in some measure, after which Velvet and Silket would never +permit her to go out to get food, but always brought the best for her, +and she lived quite at her ease, only she never was so strong as +before.</p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p43.jpg" width = "334" height = "293" +alt = "mouse caught in bird trap"> + +<p>“Velvet strove by all the means in her power, to +<span class = "pagenum">44</span> +make her mother happy; that she might not feel her misfortune so +severely; and she succeeded so well that Downy became quite cheerful and +contented, and never complained or repined at her lameness.</p> + +<p>“The Summer passed happily away, but the sudden death of poor +Silket, once more filled them with grief. The innocent little creature +was sleeping under the nut-trees in the garden, one warm morning in +September; he had been collecting nuts to carry home, but being tired, +he laid down to repose himself in the sun, and unfortunately fell +asleep, nor did he wake till he found himself in the grasp of the +merciless black cat, who springing upon her defenceless prey, strangled +him in an instant. There was no fond Downy near, nor affectionate +Velvet, to receive his last sighs, nor give him aid. The evening came, +but no Silket returned to the disconsolate Downy; another day passed, +but they saw nothing of Silket, and they were at last certain that he +must have been killed. This heavy blow almost overcame Downy, and it was +with the greatest difficulty, Velvet could persuade her to eat and be +comforted; but every thing around them served to recall the image, and +remind them of the loss, of their beloved Silket, and this gave them +both great pain. At last, Velvet, without saying any thing to her +mother, stole away while she was asleep, and having found a pretty spot, +some way from farmer Ball’s land, she made a new +<span class = "pagenum">45</span> +house, much more convenient than the one they then lived in; it was a +long time before it was completed, but when it was quite finished, and +well stocked with grain, she brought Downy to see it: it was situated in +a pretty garden, on a beautiful sloping green bank, under the shade of a +fir tree, not many yards from a nice white brick house, the front of +which was covered with vines and wall-fruit; there were pots of balsams +and geraniums, placed on the beds opposite the windows and glass +door.”</p> + +<p class = "illustration"> +<img src = "images/p45.jpg" width = "337" height = "296" +alt = "mice in front of house"> + +<p>“Why, mamma, (exclaimed Alfred, suddenly +<span class = "pagenum">46</span> +looking up in his mother’s face,) that was just like our garden, +and our house.” and he ran to the window, and looked out into the +garden, saying with great vivacity, “Yes, mamma, it is the same; +it is our garden with the fir-tree and the bank, and all the flowers, +exactly the same<ins class = "correction" title = "? for !">!”</ins> +And he turned an inquiring eye unto his mother.</p> + +<p>Mrs. Clifford smiled, but made no reply to his exclamations of +surprise, and went on as if she had not heard him. “In this quiet +pretty spot they settled themselves, and Downy hoped to spend the rest +of her days in quiet; she wanted for nothing, for Velvet provided for +all her wants. Downy thought, if she should ever be deprived of her, it +would break her heart, and she must soon be starved to death, as she +could not work now, as she had done formerly. These thoughts made her +often very sorrowful, and Velvet thought she seemed to droop, and lose +her spirits and appetite, so Velvet thought to get something nice to +please her; she stole into the house one day, when nobody saw her, and +after some little time, she found her way into the cupboard, where she +smelt something very nice, and beheld a new plum-cake. ‘Ah!’ +said she, ‘how my sick mother will like a bit of this cake!’ +so having made a hearty meal herself off it, she carried away the rest +for her mother, not thinking she had done any harm.”</p> + +<p>“Ah, mamma, (cried Alfred with tears in his +<span class = "pagenum">47</span> +eyes,) how I wish I had not set the trap to catch that good Velvet; she +might have had my cake, and welcome, if I had but known what she took it +for, how sorry I am! I wish Velvet was alive again, with all my +heart.”</p> + +<p>“Did not I tell you, Alfred, you would be sorry for killing the +<i>nasty brown mouse</i>, before the day was over.”</p> + +<p>“Oh! yes, dear mamma, and so I am indeed; I wish you had +told me the story before, and then I should not have set the +trap.—And so I suppose poor Downy will die, because she has no one +to feed her.”</p> + +<p>“Well, Alfred, shall I finish my story? <!-- close quote +missing --></p> + +<p>“Yes, if you please, mamma, but you don’t know any more +of it, do you?” “Only this, when Downy found Velvet did not +return, she died of grief. Thus ended the <span class = "smallcaps">Life +and Adventures of The Field-mouse</span>.”</p> + +<p>“Ah, mamma,” cried Alfred, bursting into tears, +“what a cruel boy I have been! I have killed both Downy and +Velvet—I will never be so cruel again.”</p> + +<p>Mrs. Clifford, charmed with the sensibility of her little boy, kissed +him most tenderly, saying, “Dry your tears, my sweet Alfred, and +resolve not to be so desirous of the death of a little animal again. +Though it is very necessary to kill them sometimes, or they would soon +destroy all our food and clothes; still when we are forced from +necessity to kill any +<span class = "pagenum">48</span> +thing, we should do it with as much humanity as we can, and never +inflict on them unnecessary pain. I should myself have been forced +to set the trap for Velvet, only I did not like to see my little Alfred, +merely from revenge, wishing so eagerly for the death of a poor mouse, +who did not know it was doing any harm in eating the cake.”</p> + +<p>Alfred kissed his mother, and thanked her for her kindness in telling +him the story; and wiping his tears away, went into the garden to play +till tea was ready.</p> + +<p> <br> </p> + +<h6>THE END.</h6> + +<p> <br> </p> + +<hr class = "mid"> + +<p class = "footnote"> +<a class = "tag" name = "note" id = "note" href = "#tag">*</a> +The above-mentioned circumstance, improbable as it may appear, +I myself was witness to in the garden not many paces from the door +of the house; when the poor little mouse actually escaped the eyes of a +cat and her kitten, who passed within a yard of the spot where it stood, +by standing in that motionless manner on the top of a clod of earth, nor +was it discovered till it left its station, and though caught by the +kitten, yet it finally escaped unhurt to the garden hedge.</p> + +<hr> + +<p class = "center smaller"> +Dean and Munday, Printers, Threadneedle-street.</p> + +</div> <!-- end div maintext --> + +<div class = "page"> + +<h4><a name = "covertext" id = "covertext" href = "#cover"> +Front Cover</a></h4> + +<p class = "center"> +Little Downy;<br> +OR,<br> +THE HISTORY<br> +OF<br> +A FIELD MOUSE.<br> +EMBELLISHED WITH<br> +<i>TWELVE COLORED ENGRAVINGS.</i></p> + +<p class = "center"> +LONDON:<br> +Printed For<br> +<span class = "smallcaps">A. 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