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diff --git a/29447.txt b/29447.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d4d93f --- /dev/null +++ b/29447.txt @@ -0,0 +1,880 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Perez the Mouse, by Luis Coloma, Translated +by Lady Moreton, Illustrated by George Howard Vyse + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Perez the Mouse + + +Author: Luis Coloma + + + +Release Date: July 18, 2009 [eBook #29447] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PEREZ THE MOUSE*** + + +E-text prepared by Louise Hope, David Edwards, and the Project Gutenberg +Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page +images generously made available by Internet Archive +(http://www.archive.org) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 29447-h.htm or 29447-h.zip: + (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29447/29447-h/29447-h.htm) + or + (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29447/29447-h.zip) + + + Images of the original pages are available through + Internet Archive. See + http://www.archive.org/details/perezmouse00colo2 + + + + + +PEREZ THE MOUSE + +by + +PADRE LOUIS COLOMA and LADY MORETON + + +PEREZ THE MOUSE + + [Illustration: Perez the Mouse took off his hat + and made a very low bow] + + +PEREZ THE MOUSE + +Adapted from the Spanish of + +PADRE LUIS COLOMA + +by + +LADY MORETON + + [Silhouette] + +With Illustrations by George Howard Vyse + + + + + + + +London: John Lane The Bodley Head +New York: Dodd, Mead & Company + +First published in 1914 +Reprinted - 1918 +Reprinted - 1927 +Reprinted - 1929 +Reprinted - 1935 + +Printed in Great Britain +by Western Printing Services Ltd., Bristol + + + + +LIST OF COLOURED PLATES + + + Perez the Mouse took off his hat + and made a very low bow _Frontispiece_ + King Bubi the First _face p._ vi + The Oldest of Court Doctors 9 + Miss Stilton, the Governess 11 + A tiny little mouse in a straw hat + and slippers and big gold spectacles 15 + Adolphus studying for Diplomacy 16 + Adelaide made tea 17 + The King sneezed very hard and turned into + the most darling little mouse you ever saw 18 + Perez the Mouse stopped at some crossway 22 + Mrs. Mouse was embroidering a beautiful + smoking cap for her husband 24 + Adolphus playing cards at the Jockey Club 25 + The Guards silently formed up ready to fire 28 + Ferocious mice .. armed to the teeth 29 + The Order of the Golden Fleece 32 + The King and Perez knelt down too 33 + The dreadful Don Pedro 36 + Elvira recited 40 + + + [Illustration: King Bubi the First] + + + + +PEREZ THE MOUSE + + + + +Once upon a time there lived a king called Bubi the First, who +was very kind to poor children and mice. For the children he +built a factory for making dolls and cardboard horses, for the +benefit of the mice he made wise laws to stop cats catching +them, and absolutely forbade the use of mouse-traps. Bubi began +to reign when he was only six years old, under the care of his +mother, who was very good and clever, and who watched over him +and guided his steps, as good children are guided by their +Guardian Angel. + + [Illustration: The oldest of the Court Doctors] + +Bubi was a darling little boy, and when on great days they put +on his gold crown and his embroidered robes, the gold of his +crown was not brighter than his hair nor the ermine of his robes +softer than his cheeks and hands. He was just like a little +Dresden china figure which had been put to sit on a throne +instead of standing on the chimney piece. + +One day while the King was eating his bread and milk, one of +his teeth began to wobble. There was a great fuss and the Court +doctors arrived in a hurry. * They were all agreed that His +Majesty had begun to change his teeth, and at length they +settled to pull out the loose one. They wanted the King to have +laughing gas, as he did when his hair was cut, as he always +fidgeted so, but Bubi was a brave little boy and made up his +mind to have it out with nothing. The oldest of the Court +doctors tied a bit of red silk round the tooth, and then gave a +tweak, and he pulled so cleverly that, while the King was making +a face, out came the tooth as round and white as a little pearl. + +Then there was another fuss as to what was to be done with it, +but Bubi's mother, who, as we have said was a very wise Queen +and very loyal to old customs, settled that the King should +write a very polite letter and put it with the tooth in an +envelope under his pillow that night, which has always been the +proper thing to do ever since the world began, and no one has +ever known Perez the Mouse forget to come and fetch the tooth +and leave a lovely present in its place. + + [Illustration: Miss Stilton, the Governess] + +King Bubi found writing that letter a dreadful task, but he +managed really quite well in the end, and only inked all his +fingers, the tip of his nose, his left ear, his right shoe and +his bib. + +He went to bed very early that evening, and ordered that all the +lights should be left in his room. He put the envelope under his +pillow and sat up in bed, determined to keep awake to see Perez +the Mouse, even if he had to wait all night. + + [Silhouette] + + + + +Perez the Mouse was a long time coming, so the little King began +to make up a little speech to say to him when he did arrive. +After a bit Bubi began to open his eyes very wide, fighting +against the miller who was trying to make him shut them; but +they did shut at last, and the little boy slipped down into the +warm bed-clothes, his head on the pillow, with one arm over it, +as a little bird tucks its head under its wing when it goes to +sleep. + +Suddenly he felt something very soft just tickling his forehead, +and, sitting up quickly, he saw in front of him, standing on the +pillow, a tiny little mouse in a straw hat and slippers and big +gold spectacles; a red satchel was slung across his back. + + [Illustration: A tiny little mouse in a straw hat + and slippers and big gold spectacles] + +King Bubi stared at him in astonishment, and Perez the Mouse, +seeing that His Majesty was awake, took off his hat and made +a very low bow, waiting to be spoken to. But the King said +nothing, because he had quite forgotten all he had made up to +say, and after thinking and thinking he faltered out at last +'Good night.' * Perez answered with a low bow, 'God give your +Majesty a very good one.' * These civil speeches quite broke +the ice, and the King and the mouse became the greatest friends. + * It was easy to see that Perez was a mouse who was accustomed +to polite society, and to run about on soft carpets, as he had +such very good manners. * It was wonderful what a lot of +things he could talk about which made him a very pleasant +companion. * He had travelled through all the pipes and drains +of the capital, and in the Royal Library alone he had eaten up +three books in less than a week. * He talked too about his +family. He had two quite grown-up daughters, Adelaide and +Elvira, and a son, nearly grown up, called Adolphus, who was +studying for diplomacy in the drawer where the Minister of State +kept his most secret notes. He did not say much about Mrs. +Mouse, and the little King somehow fancied that she was rather +vulgar. + + [Illustration: Adolphus studying for Diplomacy] + +His Majesty listened to all this with his mouth open, from time +to time he put out his hand to try and catch Perez by the tail. +* But each time the mouse gave a sort of whisk and placed his +tail out of reach, without being in the least rude. + + [Illustration: Adelaide made Tea] + +It was getting late, and the King forgot to dismiss him; so Mr. +Mouse cleverly hinted that he had to go that same night to a +street not far off to fetch the tooth of a very poor little boy +called Giles. It was rather a difficult, dangerous journey, +because near there lived a very wicked cat called Don Pedro. +The King at once wanted to go too, and begged Perez to take him. +The mouse stood thinking it over and twisting his whiskers; the +responsibility was very great, and moreover he was obliged to go +back to his own house to fetch the present for little Giles. The +King said he would like to go and see the mouse's home, which so +much flattered Perez that he at once offered him a cup of tea +and agreed to take him to see little Giles. Perez the Mouse +lived underneath a grocer's shop, near a big pile of Gruyere +cheeses which supplied the whole family with breakfast, dinner +and tea. Overjoyed, King Bubi jumped out of bed and began to +dress himself, when all at once Perez the Mouse sprang on his +shoulder and put the tip of his tail into His Majesty's nose. * +Then a wonderful thing happened, the King sneezed very hard and +turned into the most darling little mouse you ever saw. He was +all soft and shiny, and had wee green eyes like emeralds. * +Perez the Mouse took him by the paw and disappeared with him +down a tiny hole under the bed, which had been hidden by the +carpet. + + [Illustration: The King sneezed very hard and turned into + the most darling little mouse you ever saw] + +The way was dark and sticky, but they scampered along. Sometimes +Perez the Mouse stopped at some crossway and looked about before +going on, which rather frightened the King and made him feel +little shivers right down to the tip of his tail, and he knew +that he was afraid, but he remembered that: + + 'Fear is natural to the prudent, + To conquer it is to be courageous,' + +so he would not let himself be frightened, which is being really +brave. + +Once when he heard a tremendous noise, like dozens of motor +omnibuses passing over his head, he whispered to ask Perez if +that was where Don Pedro lived, but Mr. Mouse said no with his +tail, and on they went. + +After going down a gentle slope they came to a big cellar which +felt nice and warm and smelt very much of cheese; behind a pile +of Gruyere cheese they found themselves face to face with the +Huntley and Palmer biscuit tin which was the home of the Perez +family. Here they lived as happily as the rat of fable did in +the Dutch cheese. Perez the Mouse introduced the King as a +foreign tourist who was on a visit to the capital, and the +family welcomed him very cordially. The two Miss Mouses were at +work with their Governess, Miss Stilton, who was a very learned +English mouse, and Mrs. Mouse was embroidering a beautiful +smoking cap for her husband, sitting by a bright fire made of +raisin stalks. + +This happy family party delighted King Bubi. * Adelaide and +Elvira made tea and poured out some into lovely wee cups made +out of the skins of white beans. * Then they had a little +music. Adelaide sang Desdemona's song, 'O Willow Willow,' in +a way which much pleased the King, and Elvira recited about a +little mouse who was ill of fever, and a naughty kitten who +wanted to pounce on it. After this Adolphus came in from the +Jockey Club where, to the sorrow of his father and mother, he +wasted all his time playing cards with the mice from the foreign +embassies. + + [Illustration: Perez the Mouse stopped at some crossway] + +King Bubi would willingly have stayed longer, but Perez, who had +slipped away, came back with his satchel on his back and said it +was time to start. * So the King said goodbye very politely, +and Mrs. Mouse gave him a kiss on each cheek in her homely way. +* Adelaide put out a paw in a lackadaisical fashion, and Elvira +shook hands like a pump handle, while Miss Stilton made him a +beautiful cheese of a curtsey, and then stared at him through +her eyeglass until he was out of sight. * Adolphus, too, was +very gushing, and conducted him as far as the lid of the tin, +and offered to introduce him at the Polo Club, for which the +King thanked him very much, thinking all the time that, though +he might be a very smart young mouse, he was rather a bore. Then +Bubi and Perez the Mouse again began their scamper with such a +quantity of precautions that the King was astonished. + + [Illustration: Mrs. Mouse was embroidering + a beautiful smoking cap for her husband] + +In front of them went a regiment of ferocious mice, soldiers +whose bayonets made of fine needles gleamed in the darkness. +Behind them came a second regiment, also armed to the teeth. + +Perez the Mouse then confessed that he would not have undertaken +this expedition without these soldiers to protect the person of +the young monarch. + +All of a sudden King Bubi saw the guard in front had disappeared +down a little hole, through which came a faint light. + + [Illustration: Adolphus playing cards at the Jockey Club] + +This was the moment of danger. Perez the Mouse, slowly waggling +his tail from side to side, put his head very cautiously through +the hole and looked around; he then went back two steps, and +finally, suddenly seizing the King's paw, dashed through the +hole like an arrow, crossed a big kitchen, and disappeared +through another hole on the opposite side near the range. As one +sees telegraph posts out of the train so Bubi saw that kitchen. +By the hearth, in the glow of the fire, lay an enormous cat, the +dreadful Don Pedro, its great whiskers heaving up and down as it +breathed. + +The guards silently formed up, from hole to hole, ready to fire, +to protect the King's route from the sleeping cat. It was all +very grand and imposing. An ugly old woman sat in a chair, also +asleep, with her knitting on her knee. + +Once through the hole the danger was over, and they had only to +get upstairs, as this was where little Giles lived. Everything +was open in his poor room, which was all cracks and draughts. + +King Bubi scrambled on to the arm of a seatless chair, the only +one in the room, and from there could see a picture of poverty +such as he had never dreamt of. + +The sloping roof joined the floor, so that on one side a man +could not have stood upright, and through the holes the cold air +of dawn was coming, while icicles hung from the roof. The only +furniture besides the chair was an empty bread basket hanging +up, and in a corner a bed of straw and rags, on which little +Giles and his mother were lying fast asleep. + +Perez the Mouse drew nearer, taking the King by the paw, and +they could see how little Giles was huddled up in the rags, and +how he was cuddled up against his mother for warmth, and it made +the King so unhappy that he began to cry. + + [Illustration: The Guards silently formed up ready to fire] + +Why had he never known that people were so poor? How was it that +he had never been told that children were hungry and had to +sleep on horrid beds? He did not want any blankets on his cot +till every child in his kingdom had plenty of bed-clothes to +keep them warm. + + [Illustration: Ferocious mice . . . . armed to the teeth] + +Perez the Mouse brushed away a tear with his paw and then tried +to comfort the King by showing him the bright gold coin he was +going to put under little Giles' pillow in exchange for his +first tooth. + +Just then Giles' mother woke and sat up in bed and looked at her +little boy, who was still asleep. It was becoming light, and she +had to earn some money by washing clothes in the river. * She +caught the sleeping Giles in her arms and made him kneel down +under a picture of the Infant Christ which was pinned to the +wall near the bed. + +The King and Perez the Mouse knelt down too, and so did the +soldier mice who were waiting in the empty bread basket. The +child began to pray, 'Our Father which art in Heaven.' + +Bubi started and looked at Perez the Mouse, who understood his +astonishment, and fixed his piercing eyes on him, but never said +a single word. + + [Silhouette] + + + + +On the return journey they were silent and preoccupied, and half +an hour later the King was home in his nursery with Perez the +Mouse, who again put the tip of his tail into Bubi's nose and +made him sneeze. All at once he found himself safely back again +in his own warm little cot, with the Queen's arms round him, who +woke him, as she always did, with a kiss. + + [Illustration: The Order of the Golden Fleece] + +At first he thought it had all been a dream; but when he looked +for the letter he had put under his pillow, he found it was +gone, and in its place was a case with the Order of the Golden +Fleece in diamonds, a magnificent present from the generous +Perez the Mouse in exchange for his first tooth. (Perhaps I had +better explain to English children that in King Bubi's country +the Order of the Golden Fleece is like our Order of the Garter, +the greatest honour the King can give.) + + [Illustration: The King and Perez the Mouse knelt down too] + +The little King, however, paid no attention to his beautiful +present, and let it lie unnoticed on the bed, while, leaning on +his elbow, he lay very busy thinking. * Then, suddenly, he +asked the Queen in a very solemn voice, 'Mama! Why do poor +children say the same prayer as I do, "Our Father which art +in Heaven"?' The Queen answered, 'Because He is as much their +Father as He is yours.' Then said the King thoughtfully, 'We +must be brothers.' 'Yes, my darling, they are your brothers,' +answered the Queen. * Bubi's eyes were filled with astonishment, +and, in a choky voice, he asked, 'Then why am I a King and have +everything I want, while they are poor and have nothing?' + +The Queen gave him a squeeze, and, kissing him again on his +forehead, said, 'Because you are the eldest brother, which is +what being King really means. * You understand, darling? God +has given you everything in order that your younger brothers +should want for nothing.' 'I never knew this before,' said Bubi, +shaking his head, and, without thinking any more about his +present, he began to say his prayers, as he did every morning; +and, as he prayed, it seemed to him that all the poor little +boys in the kingdom came round him with their hands clasped, and +that he, the eldest brother, spoke for them all when he prayed +'Our Father which art in Heaven.' + +King Bubi grew up to be a great ruler. * He always asked God's +help in all he did, and returned thanks for his happiness, ever +saying, speaking for all his subjects, poor and rich, good and +bad, 'Our Father which art in Heaven'; and when he died, a very +old man, and his good soul arrived at the gates of Heaven, he +knelt down and prayed as usual, 'Our Father.' And, as he prayed, +the gates were opened wide by thousands of poor little children +to whom he had been King, that is to say, eldest brother here on +earth. + + [Illustration: The dreadful Don Pedro] + + [Silhouette] + + + + +P.S. + + +The Spanish story which was written, once upon a time, to amuse +a real little boy King, ends here; but I cannot help adding that +it does seem a pity not to try and get Perez the Mouse to come +to England. * The only way to manage this will be to take +great pains over your copies and spelling, so that when your +first tooth comes out you will be able to write a nice, tidy, +polite letter to him. If you put it under your pillow at night I +am nearly sure you will find it gone and a present in its place +in the morning. Perhaps you may even feel the same little soft +tickle on your forehead that King Bubi did; but I do not promise +for certain that you will see kind Mr. Mouse, because he is +rather shy. + + A.M.M. + + [Silhouette] + + [Illustration: Elvira recited] + + + + + * * * * * + + + + +Errata (noted by transcriber) + + [Illustration: King Bubi the First] [Rubi] + + [List of Plates:] + The Oldest of the Court Doctors + [_"the" supplied to agree with figure caption_] + +The punctuation of "Ferocious mice..." is unchanged. + +King "Bubi" was Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886-1941). 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