The Tale of Two Bad Mice

This the fifth book I wrote that was published, and I have been told people enjoy it very much. In this story, two mice, Tom Thumb and his wife Hunca Munca, pillage a doll house belonging to dolls Lucinda and Jane. When Lucinda and Jane leave go out for a drive one day, the two mice sneak into the house and are amazed by all the food and luxurious furnishings. After many tries to eat the delicious food, the couple realize that it is plaster and painted, and not edible at all. Meanwhile they make a mess of the kitchen and try to heat up the fish by putting it in the fire, which of course is only crinkled red and orange paper.

Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca continue to explore the kitchen and disappointed. Coffee, rice, and sago are actually beads. They are angered by the fake food and begin to reek havoc on the rest of the doll house. They bad mice have better luck in finding things that will be useful to them and have no qualms with taking whatever they can put their paws on. They take a feather bed, two chairs, a cradle, and many other odds and ends back to their mouse hole without any regret.

When Lucinda and Jane come home they, of course, are furious with the state of the house, though they show little emotion because they are dolls after all. The girl who owned the dollhouse decided to get a doll dressed as a police office to protect the house from thieves.
Luckily, the mice were not too terrible, as I like there to be some redeeming quality in my mischievous characters. When they found a sixpence piece they gave it to the dolls one Christmas and Hunca Munca dusts and sweep the dolls house every morning. So children, we all make mistakes and sometimes do things that we don’t realize were bad until later. But you should learn from Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca, you can always try to right a wrong.