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What Mummy Did
Most mommies are very nice, but sad to say in our story, that is not the case, especially when we’re talking about the Mouse Queen. I’m not sure if she really even qualifies as a mummy in the strict sense of the word. For when I think of a mummy, it’s someone who loves her children and takes care of them and reads them bed-time stories and gives them good-night kisses and that sort of stuff. I’m pretty sure the Mouse Queen never did any of that for any of her children – especially poor Reggie.
So, Reggie was absolutely right to be scared as he opened the clock door and poked his head out. Fortunately for Reggie, the Mouse Queen had just downed her seventeenth sugarplum, and was on such a sugar high, that she actually greeted him with a bright smile – which normally was pretty scary, as it showed all her sharp teeth. But when those sharp teeth were dripping with the gooey remains of sugarplums – it was downright dreadful. Reggie was lucky he didn’t fall over in a dead faint, at that very moment.
But, he didn’t.
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