stories for children

Childrens Fables.
by Jan Luthman

There stood Mrs Katie, at a great big kitchen table covered in flour and butter and salt and sugar and jam and bits of pastry.

The two mice knocked on the window.

Mrs Katie looked up and opened the window.

"Hallo, Millie," She said, "You two must be freezing., come on in where it's warm."

Millie and Matilda hopped on to the kitchen table.

"What brings you two mice out in the middle of winter?" Asked Mrs Katie.

Millie told Mrs Katie the sad story of how Matilda had lost her home and had nowhere to go.

Mrs Katie thought a while, then smiled.

"There's a small burrow at the bottom of the wall in the back porch. Why don't you go and have a look - it might suit you."

Millie and Matilda scurried off.

Inside the burrow they found a comfortable little sitting room, with a small fireplace and two comfy armchairs with lovely plump soft cushions just waiting to be sat in and a bedroom with an old-fashioned box-bed tucked away cosily in one corner, even a tiny kitchen.

It was exactly what Matilda had been hoping to find.

"Would it be alright if I moved in today?" Matilda asked Mrs Katie, " I'd be very, very quiet. "

"Of course it would," Replied Mrs Katie.

And, from then on, Matilda lived happily under the Old Farmhouse.

And, what's more, she and Millie became the very best of good friends.

The End
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