BR2-11: Pepper's adventure

One day, Dad came home with two pet mice in a little cage. His daughter Sarah loved them and she called the brown one Pepper and the white one Salt. So Dad made a new big cage for them. It had a wheel and a ladder and a room upstairs. Sarah played with the mice a lot, and so did Nicky from next door. Mum said “Don’t take them outside,” But one day Nicky did it. Sarah wanted him to stop that but he put Pepper down on the glass to see. Then Pepper ran away! It ran into a flower bed. He was sorry but that didn’t bring Pepper back. Pepper had gone. There are lots of hiding places in a garden for a little mouse. They looked for Pepper but they didn’t find. Sarah worried about a cat may get Pepper and eat him, so Nicky went home crying. Well, will Pepper be found?

Reference: Randell, Beverley & Cutter, Priscilla. (1994). Pepper's adventure. Albany, New Zealand: Nelson Price Milburn.

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