Page 31 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

When Someday Comes
The longer the Mouse Queen had the Magic Nut, Krakatuk, the bigger she grew. And the bigger she grew, the hungrier she got. And the hungrier she got, the more she thought of the goodies to eat in the Land of Sweets. And the more she thought of all the goodies to eat in the Land of Sweets, the angrier she became. And the angrier she became, the more she wanted to kick Drosselmeir out of the Land of Sweets so she could eat all the candy and cake she wanted, for as long as she wanted, whenever she wanted.
Someday, her chance would come.
Then the Mouse Queen noticed all her sons and daughters and their sons and daughters and all the cousins, too, had been growing right along with her. Maybe not as fast as she did – but after all she was the Queen and nobody had better, ever! be bigger than her!
Also, there were a lot more mice than before – scads of them, crawling in and under and around each other. And they were the size of big, old dogs and a few were even as big as pigs! Great big mice lounged in the shade and dug in
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