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The Nut
One day, the Mouse Queen’s famished family bumped into a tree and was showered with nuts. Before you could say, “Three Blind Mice,” all the nuts were gobbled and gone. All but one Nut.
This Nut was a beautiful, golden Nut that hung from the highest branch. It was the biggest, most beautiful Nut the Mouse Queen had ever seen. Saliva dripped from every snout of every mouse, as the entire Mouse family craned their necks to stare up, up, up to the top of the tree.
The Mouse Queen quickly sent dozens of her sons up the tree, but the trunk was too slick to climb and they all slid into a heap at the bottom. She ordered the tallest mice to form stirrups with their paws so other mice could climb into the
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