The Halloween Mouse

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Timothy Maywood Usher Mouse was a fine young lad who lived in the Elmwood Public library.

In the library he liked to read stories about great, thrilling adventures . . . tales of giants and pirates and bandits, of secret treasures and gallant journeys, of lost tribes and narrow escapes.

"I should like to have such an adventure myself," Timothy often thought.

But then he looked out the library window

The outside world looked very big.

So very big and strange, not at all like his cozy library with its shelves and its books . . . its many many books that were full of such wonderful adventures.

He wasn't sure he wanted to leave his library.

"But I must," he told himself. "If it's such fun to read an adventure, it must be ten times more fun to have one."

And so he kept watch out the window . . . watching for just the right sort of day for starting a great adventure.

Some days were gray and rainy. He hoped for an adventure, not a soaking.

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