This story is about a foolish city mouse who took more than what she could have. The moral of this story is to always just take what you need and not more. Sometimes if you are too greedy, you might get bad consequences.
Once upon a time, there was a city mouse that lived in a very big house. It was never difficult for her to find food around the house for there was always food everywhere.
One day her owners went on a long holiday and finished all the food at home before they left.
The mouse had a very bad time. She could find no food at all. She looked here and there, but there was no food, and she grew very thin.
At last the mouse found a basket, full of corn. There was a small hole in the basket, and she crept in. She could just get through the hole. Then she began to eat the corn. Being very hungry, she ate a great deal, and went on eating and eating. She had grown very fat before she felt that she had had enough.
When the mouse tried to climb out of the basket, she could not. She was too fat to pass through the hole.
“How shall I climb out?” said the mouse. “Oh, how shall I climb out?”
The mouse tried and tried but she just couldn’t get through the hole no matter how much she pushed. She was just too big.
Just then the cat came along and saw the mouse in trouble and decided to take advantage of the situation to eat the mouse.
“Do you want me to pull you out of the hole?” asked the cat.
The mouse was scared at first as she thought that the cat would eat her if she accepted his help but there was no other way out so she foolishly agreed.
She then put her feet through the hole and just when she did; the cat jumped up and ate the mouse up.
