Перевод

\nA Visitor

\nIt is evening. We are in the house. We are on the sofa. It is very late, but we don't want to go to bed.
\nThere is a big vase in our room. It is empty.
\nSuddenly we hear a noise in the vase. We jump down and run to the vase. Blackie climbs up the vase and looks in.
\n"What is there?" we ask.
\n"I can't see," says Blackie. "It is too dark in the vase."
\nThen we hear the noise again.
\n"There is a small animal in the vase!" says Pinky. "Let's help it!"
\n"How can we help it?" we ask.
\n"Take the umbrella and put it in the vase. Then the animal can climb up the umbrella and get out," says Pinky.
\nI take the umbrella and put it in the vase. We listen and look. Suddenly we see the small animal. It is climbing up the umbrella. It is… Oh, it is a mouse!
\n"Oh, help!" cries Pinky. Pinky is a kitten, but she is afraid of mice. She jumps upon a shelf and hides behind the books.
\nNow the mouse can see us. It looks at us and cries, "Oh, help!" and climbs down the umbrella back into the vase.
\n"There is a mouse in the vase!" cries Blackie. "It is big and fat and I am hungry!"
\n"Oh no!" cries Pinky on the shelf. "Don't eat it! Please, don't eat it!"
\nBut Blackie doesn't listen to Pinky. He puts his paw into the vase. He wants to catch the mouse but he can't. Then Blackie says. "I can climb into the vase and catch the mouse."
\nBlackie climbs into the vase. We can only see his tail now.
\n"It is too dark here!" cries Blackie. "I can't see the mouse!" He is very angry.
\nSuddenly we can see the mouse. It climbs up Blackie's tail and out of the vase.
\n"Blackie!" I say. "The mouse is not in the vase!"
\n"Where is it?" cries Blackie.
\nThe mouse climbs down the vase and runs into a hole in the floor.
\n"It is under the floor," says Pinky. "Blackie, climb out!"
\n"But I can't!" cries Blackie. "Help me!"
\nI look at Pinky, and she looks at me.
\n"Then jump out!" we say.
\n"I can't jump here!" says Blackie.
\n"What can we do?" I ask Pinky.
\n"Take the umbrella and put it in the vase," says Pinky. "Then this hungry animal can climb out."
\nI put the umbrella in the vase. Soon we can see Blackie's head, then his body and his tail.
\n"Thank you," he says.
\n"The mouse is in that small hole in the floor," says Pinky. "You can climb in and catch it."
\nBlackie looks at the small hole.
\n"No," he says. "The mouse is very small and thin, and I am not very hungry."
\n"Then let's go to bed. It is very late," says Pinky.

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