Page 24 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

Lack, the Mouse Queen and all her sons and their wives and babies wandered around in the wilderness, eating seeds and drinking from cactus and occasionally feasting on some hiker’s lost lunch – which in my opinion, is what mice should eat instead of my stash of chocolate-covered cherries or apples from the basket on my kitchen counter.
But mice disagree.
For years, the Mouse Queen has held a big-time, mother- of-all-grudges against Drosselmeir. She’s fumed and fussed, ranted and raved, griped and groaned, and scratched out a living in the wilderness.
From their wilderness, these mice could see a land of milk and honey, the Land of Sweets, and they would do anything to get in.
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