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After dinner he fell asleep, and on waking he found that it was quite
dark. He looked up and there was the moon right high up in the sky.
"Oh, Mr. Moon!" he cried, "You do seem a long way away. I think it
would be much easier for you to come down here than for me to get up
there." But Mr. Moon stayed where he was.
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Looking up Willie Mouse saw two big eyes gleaming in the dark. They
belonged to Mrs. Owl, and as Willie was only a little mouse he didn't
know that Mrs. Owl had a special liking for little mice.
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"Please, Mrs. Owl," said he, "how can I get to the moon?"
Down flew Mrs. Owl. "This is the way to the moon," she said, and she
caught him up in her beak and carried him back to the owl house where
she lived.
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When Willie Mouse saw all the owlets with their beaks gaping open he
began to be frightened, for he feared that Mrs. Owl was going to eat
him all up. But he didn't know that a good green elf, who lived in the
trunk of the tree, was near at hand, and just as Mrs. Owl opened her
beak the leaves rustled and there stood Mr. Elf, who jumped to the
ground with Willie on his back.
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When the good green elf had shown him the way home he thought he would
ask him if the moon were really made of green cheese, but all of a
sudden Mr. Elf disappeared, and Willie Mouse still thinks that one
day he will find the moon and have enough cheese to last him all his
life.
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