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Title: Five Mice in a Mouse-trap
by the Man in the Moon.

Author: Laura E. Richards

Illustrator: Kate Greenaway
Addie Ledyard

Release Date: May 29, 2009 [EBook #29001]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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FIVE MICE IN A MOUSE-TRAP, BY THE MAN IN THE MOON.

_DONE IN VERNACULAR,
FROM THE LUNACULAR,_

BY LAURA E. RICHARDS,

_Author of "Babyhood," Etc._

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
_KATE GREENAWAY_, _ADDIE LEDYARD_, _AND OTHERS_.

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BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY ESTES AND LAURIAT,
299 TO 305 WASHINGTON STREET,
1881.

_Copyright,_
BY ESTES & LAURIAT,
1880.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
THE MAN IN THE MOON, 9

CHAPTER II.
THE MOUSE-TRAP, 14

CHAPTER III.
THE MICE, 19

CHAPTER IV.
JOLLYKALOO, 45

CHAPTER V.
TOMTY, 64

CHAPTER VI.
A NIGHT JOURNEY, 79

CHAPTER VII.
A RAINY DAY AND WHAT CAME OF IT, 97

CHAPTER VIII.
A STORY CHAPTER, 109

CHAPTER IX.
A PICNIC, 123

CHAPTER X.
THE CARRIAGE CLOUD, 138

CHAPTER XI.
A BIRTHDAY PARTY, 154

CHAPTER XII.
SICKNESS IN THE MOUSE-TRAP, 169

CHAPTER XIII.
OFF TO THE SEA-SHORE, 179

CHAPTER XIV.
STO