* * *
SOMETHING
WENT WRONG
Once upon a time, in the Black Widdle Forest,
where the loveliest flowers grew, and the greenest pine trees were ever seen.
In this grand forest, there were three forest
mice that lived in a tiny tiny cottage, Max and Angelina, they had the same
hobby, they all love singing and dancing, only Max, he was a little bit lazy.
And at that little cottage, everything was always fine. Except for one day,
just one day, just one little thing went wrong!
It was a lovely day, the birds were singing,
the bees were buzzing and all the flowers were bloomed. There were surpluses of
beautiful things to see! Jack peeked outside of the window and said, "What
a nice day! Let’s go outside for a tea party!" Angelina smiled and pulled out the list from
the kitchen, "Hmmmm...Let me think.... We need tea cups, bowls and
silverware. I will make the cake and boil the tea." said Angelina, while
Max was still in bed, Angelina called "Jack, Max, I want you two to set up
the table, put on the tablecloth, and make sure set the silverware.” Max
yawned, "What a hot day! I will just rest, until you call me to eat."
Max thought he would have to rely on Jack to do the work.
Then Max heard Jack called, "Max, you
can't always be lazy, if you act that way, you won't get any food, we are
having a tea party. You need to work too."
Quickly, Jack ran to Angelina and whispered
something to her. Angelina pretended to say loudly, "Oh! I forgot to bake
more cakes. Well, I think I will have to see who sets up the table faster, who
will get the cake." Max heard the words and jumped out of the bed like
flash of lightning. He grabbed the silverware from Jack and started to set up
the table as fast as he possibly could. Angelina laughed, “Well, I guess you
are a hard worker after all."
Outside, they were sitting in rattan chairs.
Max especially brought a rocking chair for himself.
He laid in the rocking chair lazily, and
biting the scrumptious cake. While Angelina went to the kitchen to get more cakes,
Jack poured the tea to Max; he eagerly sipped the hot tea.
"Ouch!”
Max said.
"It's too hot!" He threw the tea on
the grass.
Angelina chuckled, "Watch out! Max, you
are not that hungry. "
"Oh, yeah, I am famished! I could eat
this cake in one bite!" Max
replied. He took the biggest bite he could do! But he took a too big bite, so
his mouth was too full to chew.
While they were eating, Angelina shared some
cakes to the birds. Jack said, “We should always be a team, in the future, if
something happens, we need to work out together." said Jack.
"Come on! Jack, nothing will happen in
such peaceful forest." said Max.
As he turned to get another piece of cake, he
suddenly saw a giant orange cat. "Well-- Maybe something will
happen!" said Max with shivering, as he took his arm back.
Far away, they all saw a gargantuan cat was
sleeping under the big tree soundly...
* * *
WHAT AN IDEA
They got quite scared and scurried back to
their cottage, thinking about how to get rid of the cat.
They thought
and thought...suddenly! Jack popped out with an idea! What could it be? Now
with joy, Jack was shaking his hands in the air as if possible. With a great
voice as he could not wait, he shouted out!
"This is my idea, we can pull a string
through the forest, and the cat would trip over the line, and slow down, so we
can run back home safely!"
"Great idea!” replied Angelina in an
admiring way.
Jack continued, "So Max and I will find
the material to make a rope."
"Oh, Gosh!" said Max. Jack turned to
Max and said "Remember, I told you, in the future, when difficult time
comes, we need to work hard to overcome the problem." Max nodded,
"But..."
"Max, do you have a plan?” asked
Angelina.
"Why do we have to work? Let's stay home
and not come out." said Max.
Jack looked perplexed, "So you're saying
we stay home forever?" Max got mumbly.
All of the mice agreed and hurried off to
work, except Max. He followed Jack reluctantly. While the cat was asleep, Jack
and Max went to different directions in the forest, to collect pieces of
strings to make a rope.
After they collected every single stitch of
rope they could find, they started to make the rope. They were fixing, cutting,
wrapping and stitching. They were working as hard as they can.
"Every single stitch has to be
perfect." said Angelina.
"The rope has to be exactly the length
we want." said Jack.
"Foey!" Max grumped.
As the time, the rope was almost
finished, Angelina added a few more
stitches to the rope to secure. By the time now, the rope was finally finished.
"Yes!" said the three mice, as they jumped with joy!
They headed down to the forest. They were
ready to get to work, Jack and Max climbed up a tree to position the rope.
Angelina was staying at the bottom of the tree.
As Jack and Max lowered the rope, Angelina
watched and giving instruction, "lower and lower..." until the rope
was almost reached the ground. Angelina raised her hand, “Up a little
bit... Ok, perfect! “
As the cat was still sleeping, Max remembered
they had a toy rat. Max scurried back to their cottage, he came back with the
toy rat. "Good job, Max." Angelina smiled at him. Max blushed with
joy.
Up on the
tree, Jack called, "We have one more job to do!”
* * *
STRATEGY
WITH CAT
As Jack climbed down the tree, he said, “We
need to dig the hole, so the cat will trip over and fall into the hole. Me and Max will dig a hole, Angelina,"
Jack turned to Angelina and continued," I want you to collect the hay in
the forest to spread out the hay, so the cat wouldn't see the hole.", " Remember." He called out to Angelina and Max,
"Before night, we will have to get this job finished.” Jack said sharply.
"What! Do we have to! That will be a tremendous job!! " said Max with
his mouth opened wide.
Jack said," Because in the night, we
must catch the cat, otherwise, we will be in danger." Since Max didn't
want to see the cat again, he slowly
nodded to agree. Without asking, Angelina went straight to work.
Jack and Max started to dig the hole. The time
passed by, when it was nearly sunset, Max straightened up his back with his
lips pouted to Jack, "Can we stop now? My hands are sore... my back is
hurting...my head is dizzy...my eyes are tired...I've been digging with it all
day." Jack glanced at him and kept shoveling, he replied," This size
is good for us, but not good for cat. So we have to dig more."
"O-K-" Max replied reluctantly.
Before it was getting dark, Angelina came
back with her basket full of hay, "This must be enough." Angelina
thought. When the hole was almost finished, Jack helped Angelina put on the
hay, while Max was wandering around chasing a butterfly.
When it was close to midnight, everything was
ready. They all climbed on the tree quietly, and observed the cat.
"Now, any questions?" Jack
whispered.
"Wait!” Max shouted," I forgot my
shovel on the ground... I was chasing butterfly...." So he climbed down the
tree and tiptoed to get his shovel back. Jack and Angelina sighed.
"Any
more questions?" Jack whispered again.
"No--" this time, Angelina and Max
said together.
"Ok, let's do it. When I say NOW, throw
the toy rat next to the cat." Jack whispered.
By the time, the cat started to wake up. His
sharp paws made long lines as he stretched his body.
His green eyes like two light bulbs were
glimmering in the dark forest.
"1-2-3 NOW!" Jack said in the low
sharp voice.
Angelina threw the toy rat into the forest,
right next to the cat.
"Finally--" said Max with a big
relief. The cat chased the toy rat faster and faster. He was hungry; he was
ready to hunt; he was concentrated, and so he didn't see the rope and…TRIP! The
cat fell into the hole!
"Hoary!" said the mice as they did
Hi-Fives. The cat tumbled and rolled into the hole in a hilarious way. That
made the mice laughing and giggling so hard, they couldn’t even stop...
From now on, as you can see, when cats run,
they would always put their heads so close to the ground, because they want to
make sure that three mice didn't put any rope near the ground to be tipped over
again! 
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