CHAPTER I
Mrs. Mouse tripped daintily up, merrily chattering, and calling to the elves:
“Come, come! follow me.”
Then she pushed aside some stalks of wheat and led them into her tiny home.
They entered the house much against their will.
They would have preferred to remain at the door, and hoped they would not have to stay there long, and that she would soon be ready to go and show them the way to the beautiful world.
How was it she was not as pleasant as she was when Grandfather Grasshopper was there?
She called out sharply, “Spider Eyes, come in quickly, and shut the door.”