Name: 子供たちのための友情をテーマにしたベッドタイムの物語 (A bedtime story for children about friendship)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:50:18.000Z
Duration: 22 min 58 s
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A bedtime story for children, in English.

Once there was house with a mouse family living between the kitchen floor and the basement:

Papa Mouse, Mama Mouse, Grandpa Mouse, Grandma Mouse, and the two twins, See and Mee. They

all got along together just fine, and the twins were inseparable. Mama Mouse and Papa

This particular mouse family was musically inclined! Mama played piano, Papa played saxophone,

Grandma played violin, and Grandpa played clarinet. Every evening they would make music,

seated by the fireplace. The twin brothers would join in, imitating the arias they heard

over the radio in the kitchen upstairs. See had a high voice, and Mee's voice was even

The mouse family had a happy life, except for one thing. There was a cat in the house,

an oversized creature often waiting in the kitchen, ready to pounce on any mouse that

"Stay right here till you catch those filthy creatures," said the homeowner, leaving

When she overheard that, Mama Mouse got mad. "What do you mean, filthy creatures? We're

a lot cleaner than that big ball of fur that runs around shedding all over the carpet."

There was one good thing. The cat had never succeeded in actually catching a single mouse.

The owner gave up trying to use the cat against the mice. Then he hit on the idea of using

posters to trick the mice into leaving the house.

For two days he slaved over the project, using the kitchen floor as a workshop to paint his

Finally the posters were ready. They were masterfully executed. The mice spent a long

time every night admiring the artistry. See and Mee, who had just mastered the alphabet,

The tastiest morsels are in the bakery down the street!

And then there was a slogan so downright silly that it gave the whole mouse family a hearty

laugh. Free cheese is available in the mousetrap.

Seeing his posters had done no good, the homeowner got back onto the kitchen floor and created

a new poster with a new slogan. Holland: the country with the tastiest cheese in the whole

world! This slogan would do the trick, he was sure...

After the mice failed to pack up and move to Holland, the owner gave up on his war with

them. There was still no great love between the homeowner and the mice, but there was

Every night, the mouse roamed the kitchen, helping themselves to anything not tightly

sealed. They had lost all fear of the cat or the homeowner.

One day the homeowner's red-haired nephew showed up. The boy's parents had sent him

there, saying they were leaving the country and planned to be away for a long time. The

uncle wasn't exactly thrilled. He knew that the young redhead wasn't very well-behaved

and suspected the parents were just unloading the boy. But you can't turn your nephew

onto the street! So the boy had to stay. Along with him came a big grand piano that occupied

The boy turned out to be clever and inventive. When he found out about the mice, the uneasy

peace was shattered and the house became a war zone. First he kicked the cat off of the

couch, chuckling: "You haven't earned the right to lounge around all day."

After training the cat, the boy set about taking care of the mice. He knew from his

uncle that they lived under the kitchen floor. The first thing he did was to plug up the

hole in the wall with a piece of cardboard. By morning the hole was back, even bigger

this time. The boy sealed it with plywood. But Papa Mouse chewed through the plywood

"It's no use," said the boy's uncle, when he saw the disappointment on his nephew's

face. "They've got teeth strong enough to chew through iron."

"We'll see about that," answered the boy. The uncle envied his self-assurance.

The next day, Grandpa Mouse went up to see how far away the redheaded menace was. All

of a sudden he was knocked down by something coming through the air from behind the refrigerator.

The missile came from the boy's slingshot.

Grandma Mouse used her old-fashioned mustard plasters to treat poor Grandpa. The twins

read him newspapers scavenged from the wastepaper basket. Grandpa moaned with pain. For many

days he limped on his wounded paw, vowing to take revenge. And the war came to a standstill.

The redheaded boy stopped lying in wait near the hole for a while, thinking the mice must

have moved to another house. The cat waited and watched. The mice sat quietly and ate

their final crumbs. They had to think fast or starve.

Papa Mouse had the idea of gnawing a hole in a different place.

"Great idea!" said Mama, looking at her husband with pride.

"I always said that our son was a clever boy," added Grandma.

That night Papa Mouse set to work. The boy's uncle had long since given up fighting the

mice, so his home office was sure to be safe...

Papa Mouse returned around daybreak with a good supply of cheese and bread that the owner

The mice were in the middle of a feast when all of a sudden they heard an alarming sound.

Papa Mouse went up to the newly built mouse hole and saw the freckled face of a grinning

The family sat down to talk. They absolutely had to get rid of the redheaded menace now.

The suggestions showed just how much the boy had exasperated them.

"We should chew up his book bag," suggested Mama Mouse.

"No good," said Grandma sharply. "I think we should gnaw through his shoes."

"What kind of an idea is that?" said Grandpa. "He can just use that as an excuse to keep

from going to school. Anyway, his uncle will buy the kid a new pair first thing. The last

thing the uncle wants to see is that boy moping around the house all day!"

"I think..." said Papa, and then paused. When everyone's ears were wide open, he

said, "His flower bush... Let's chew up that plant he loves so much."

All the other mice against the idea, but no one spoke. Everyone knew how the boy felt

about the flower bush. They remembered how tenderly he cared for it, watering it, binding

the flowers, carrying the plant out into the sunshine. Disfiguring the plant would have

been too cruel even for Grandpa, whose paw had been injured so painfully... Papa was

upset by the silent veto of his idea but pretended not to notice.

To break the silence, the twins spoke up loudly, in one voice. "We should gnaw the cables

The mice had often observed the boy playing his silly video games while neglecting his

studies. His uncle would lecture him, but to no avail.

"A great idea," Mama exclaimed. "Why didn't we think of that before?" She looked

at Papa Mouse as though she blamed him for not thinking of the idea himself. What a perfect

way to get even with the redheaded menace!

The twins volunteered to chew the cables. Everyone agreed; after all, they had come

up with the idea. They began that very night. Papa Mouse and Grandpa Mouse asked to be part

of the team. One was assigned to keep an eye on the redheaded boy, the other on his uncle.

Night came. The boy and his uncle were in their respective rooms. The cat was hiding

under the couch as usual. It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Grandpa Mouse looked

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