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Speaker 1: Welcome, sleep tight stories the tail of two bad mice.

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Speaker 1: Once upon a time there was a very beautiful dolls house.

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Speaker 1: It was red brick with white windows, and it had

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Speaker 1: real curtains and a front door and a chimney. It

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Speaker 1: belonged to two dolls called Loosenda and Jane. At least

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Speaker 1: it belonged to Lucinda, but she never ordered meals. Jane

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Speaker 1: was the cook, but she never did any cooking because

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Speaker 1: the dinner had been bought ready made in a box

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Speaker 1: full of shavings. There were two red lobsters, and a ham,

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Speaker 1: a fish, a pudding, and some pears and oranges. They

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Speaker 1: would not come off the plates, but they were extremely beautiful.

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Speaker 1: One morning, Lucinda and Jane had gone out for a

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Speaker 1: drive in the doll's carriage. There was no one in

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Speaker 1: the nursery and it was very quiet. Presently, there was

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Speaker 1: a little scuffling, scratching noise in a corner near the fireplace,

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Speaker 1: where there was a hole under the skirting board. Tom

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Speaker 1: Thumb put his head out for a moment and then

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Speaker 1: popped it in again. Tom Thumb was a mouse. A

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Speaker 1: minute afterwards, hunka Manka his wife put her head out too,

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Speaker 1: and When she saw that there was no one in

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Speaker 1: the nursery, she ventured out on the oilcloth under the

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Speaker 1: coal box. The dolls house stood at the other side

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Speaker 1: of the fireplace. Tom Thumb and Hunkamunca went cautiously across

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Speaker 1: the hearthrug. They pushed the front door open. Tom Thumb

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Speaker 1: and hunka Munca went upstairs and peeked into the dining room.

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Speaker 1: Then they squeaked with joy. Such a lovely dinner was

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Speaker 1: laid out upon the table. There were tin spoons, and

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Speaker 1: lead knives and forks, and two dolly chairs, all so convenient.

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Speaker 1: Tom Thumb set to work at once to carve the ham.

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Speaker 1: It was a beautiful shiny yellow, streaked with red. The

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Speaker 1: knife crumpled up and hurt him. He put his finger

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Speaker 1: in his mouth. It is not boiled enough. It is hard.

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Speaker 1: You have a try, Hunkamunca. Hunkamunca stood up in her

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Speaker 1: chair and chopped at the ham with another lead knife.

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Speaker 1: It's as hard as the ham's at the cheesemongers, said Hankamunca.

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Speaker 1: The ham broke off the plate with a jerk and

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Speaker 1: rolled under the table. Leave it alone, said Tom Thumb.

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Speaker 1: Give me some fish. Hunkamunca. Haunkamunca tried every tin spoon

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Speaker 1: in turn. The fish was glued to the dish. Then

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Speaker 1: Tom tom Thumb lost his temper. He put the ham

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the floor and hid it with

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Speaker 1: the tongs and with the shovel bang bang, smash, smash,

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Speaker 1: the ham flew all into pieces, for underneath the shiny

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Speaker 1: paint it was made of nothing but plaster. Then there

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Speaker 1: was no end to the rage and disappointment of Tom

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Speaker 1: Thumb and Hanka Munca. They broke up the pudding, the lobsters,

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Speaker 1: the pears, and the oranges. As the fish would not

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Speaker 1: come off the plate, they put it into the red hot,

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Speaker 1: crinkly paper fire in the kitchen, but it would not

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Speaker 1: burn either. Tom Thumb went up the kitchen chimney and

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Speaker 1: looked out at the top there was no soot. While

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Speaker 1: Tom Thumb was up the chimney, hunkah Munca had another disappointment.

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Speaker 1: She found some tiny canisters upon the dresser labeled rice coffee,

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Speaker 1: but when she turned them upside down, there was nothing

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Speaker 1: inside except red and blue beads. Then those mice set

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Speaker 1: to work to do all the mischief they could, especially

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Speaker 1: Tom Thumb. He took Jane's clothes out of the chest

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Speaker 1: of drawers in her bedroom and threw them out of

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Speaker 1: the top floor window. But Hanka Manka had a frugal mind.

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Speaker 1: After pulling half the feathers out of Lucinda's boa, she

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Speaker 1: remembered that she herself was in want of a feather bed.

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Speaker 1: With Tom Thumb's assistance, she carried Boa downstairs and across

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Speaker 1: the hearth rug. It was difficult to squeeze it into

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Speaker 1: the mousehole, but they managed it somehow. Then Hanka Manka

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Speaker 1: went back and fetched a chair, a bookcase, a bird cage,

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Speaker 1: and several small odds and ends. The bookcase and the

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Speaker 1: bird cage refused to go into the mousehole. Hanka Manka

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Speaker 1: left them behind the coal bar and went to fetch

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Speaker 1: a cradle. Hanka Munca was just returning with another chair

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Speaker 1: when suddenly there was a noise of talking outside upon

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Speaker 1: the landing, the mice rushed back to their hole, and

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Speaker 1: the dolls came into the nursery. What a sight met

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Speaker 1: the eyes of Jane and Lucinda. Lucinda sat upon the

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Speaker 1: upset kitchen stove and stared, and Jane leaned against the

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Speaker 1: kitchen dresser and smiled, but neither of them made any remark.

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Speaker 1: The bookcase and the birdcage were rescued from under the

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Speaker 1: coal box, but Hanka Manka has got the cradle and

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Speaker 1: some of Lucinda's clak. She also has some useful pots

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Speaker 1: and pants and several other things. The little girl that

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Speaker 1: the doll's house belonged to said, I will get a

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Speaker 1: doll dressed like a policeman. But the nurse said, I

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Speaker 1: will set a mouse trap. So that is the story

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Speaker 1: of the two bad mice. But they were not so

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Speaker 1: very very naughty after all, because Tom Thumb paid for

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Speaker 1: everything he broke. He found a crooked sixpence under the hearthrug,

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Speaker 1: and upon Christmas Eve he and Hankah Manka stuffed it

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Speaker 1: into one of the stockings of Lucinda and Jane. And

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Speaker 1: very early every morning, before anybody is awake, Unkah Manka

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Speaker 1: comes with her dust pan and her broom to sweep

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Speaker 1: the dolly's house.