A tale about a stupid mouse. The Tale of the Trickster Mouse Stories about Mice for Children

In one forest there lived a Mouse. She was small, very small, but cunning, very cunning. And it’s not that she often deceived everyone, but she loved to embellish events a little, especially if it was beneficial to her. And when she deceived someone for her own benefit, she didn’t think at all that she was doing something bad, until one story happened to her.

It was in the midst of summer, when the grasses are green all around, flowers are blooming, and smells are flying in the air that make you want to run, jump and enjoy life. One fine summer day the Mouse went for a walk across the field. In order to walk not just for fun, but with benefit, she decided to collect ears of wheat. Winter was, of course, far away, but that’s why it’s winter, you need to prepare for it all summer.
The Mouse walked and wandered for a long time, but for some reason she did not come across any spikelets. She had already decided to be upset, when she saw a Hedgehog coming towards her and dragging a whole armful of spikelets. The mouse knew the Hedgehog well, he was kind and sympathetic, so a trick immediately ripened in her head:
“Hello, Hedgehog,” greeted the Mouse.
The hedgehog heard someone calling him, stopped and looked around.
- Hello, who are you? - He didn’t notice the little Mouse at first.
“Look down,” the Mouse laughed, “here I am!”
The hedgehog lowered his gaze and laughed too.
- I didn’t even notice you, hello. Are you going for a walk?
“Yes, I wanted to pick up a few spikelets,” said the Mouse, and she herself looked at the Hedgehog’s load so slyly.
The hedgehog understood, took a few spikelets and gave them to the Mouse.
- Hold it here. I went early this morning. I walked around the field for three hours. I've gathered a little bit.
The Mouse took the spikelets and was jealous. She has three, and the Hedgehog has a whole armful. And then she decided to cheat.
- No, Hedgehog, thank you, I don’t need your spikelets, they’ll take them away from me anyway. Better keep it for yourself.
- How will they take it away? Who will take it away? - Hedgehog got worried. “We don’t have such ill-mannered animals in the forest.”
“As they do,” the Mouse continued to deceive, “they’ll just take it and take it away.”
- Are you kidding!
- Maybe, maybe. I recently picked up an armful, no, two armfuls of spikelets, and they took it away from me!
The hedgehog was so surprised that he dropped his burden.
- Who took it?
- Who? - The mouse thought. - It’s like there’s no one?! Yes, at least the Hare.
- Hare? - The hedgehog was so amazed that his spines stood on end. - Can't be! The hare is my friend. He would never hurt anyone.
- But I offended you! - The mouse stood her ground.
- No, there is some confusion here. You know what, take all my spikelets, and I’ll go to the Hare and find out everything.
The Hedgehog quickly turned around and ran to the Hare's house, and the satisfied Mouse collected the spikelets and dragged them home, rejoicing that he had deftly tricked the Hedgehog. She walked along a sunlit meadow and enjoyed life and her ingenuity, and also laughed at the Hedgehog, who believed her so naively.
“Hello, mouse,” a familiar voice was heard very close by.
Out of surprise, the Mouse got scared and dropped its burden. She looked around and noticed that Belka was standing next to her.
“Hello, Belka,” the Mouse greeted cautiously, “what are you doing here?”
“Yes, I’m picking strawberries in the clearing,” said Belka, showing a small basket full of berries.
“Wow,” the Mouse envied, “there probably aren’t many berries left here.”
“Yes,” Belka agreed, “not much.” And only small, dry berries. In order to collect, I got up very early today, even before sunrise.
The mouse pouted. She was jealous that Belka had so many berries, but she didn’t.
“And I also had berries,” the Mouse muttered displeasedly, “only they were taken away from me.”
- How did they take it away? - Belka was surprised. -Who is this?
“The hedgehog took it,” said the Mouse, the first thing that came to mind.
“It can’t be,” Belka didn’t believe it, “The Hedgehog is very kind and would never take someone else’s.”
“He took it away, he took it away,” the Mouse began to argue, “he took it like that, tore it out of his hands, and even spread out the thorns so much that it hissed!”
And the Mouse began to describe so colorfully how the Hedgehog took the berries from her that the Squirrel began to doubt.
“Wait,” she said, “we need to figure this out.” I'll run to the Hedgehog and find out everything. Don't cry, here are my berries.
The squirrel gave away the berries and galloped across the clearing. The mouse greedily took the berries, but they no longer brought her such joy as the spikelets. She herself almost believed that these were her berries that the Hedgehog had taken from her.
Forgetting about the spikelets, the Mouse walked on, looking around suspiciously. It was the height of the day. Birds flew here and there, insects rustled, and at every sound the Mouse trembled, greedily clutching the basket of berries to itself.
- Great! - A voice came from somewhere behind.
The mouse stopped dead in his tracks. Slowly turning around, she saw the Hare.
- Ah-ah-ah-ah! - The Mouse screamed and ran away, throwing the basket.
The Hare was surprised, but then noticed that the Mouse had forgotten the basket, picked it up and galloped after it.
“Don’t touch me,” the Mouse squealed, running away, “it’s not me, it’s all of them.”
“Wait a minute,” shouted the Hare, “what are you talking about?”
The mouse stopped, out of breath. The hare easily caught up with her.
- Here, - you forgot the basket.
“This is not mine,” the mouse began to deny, “I wasn’t picking berries at all, but mushrooms.”
- Mushrooms? So where are they? - Asked the Hare, looking into the Mouse’s basket.
“And the Hedgehog, that is, the Squirrel stole them,” the mouse immediately lied, “but I need the spikelets, and the Hare took them.”
Then the Mouse looked at the Hare and realized that she had said something wrong.
“That is, not a Hare, but a Hedgehog,” she corrected herself.
- Wait, wait, I don’t understand anything. Who took what from you?
The mouse stood for a minute, calmed down, collected its thoughts, and then noticed that the Hare was holding it, that is, Squirrel’s basket, in one hand, and in the other, a basket of mushrooms.
“I was picking mushrooms,” said the Mouse, “and Squirrel stole them from me.”
“It can’t be,” the Hare even laughed at such absurdity.
- Maybe! Maybe! - The Mouse began to stubbornly argue.
“You know what,” said the Hare seriously, “take my mushrooms,” he put his mushrooms in the Mouse’s basket, “and go home and don’t talk nonsense.” I'll find Belka and we'll figure it out.
The Hare quickly galloped away, but the Mouse still stood, looking around in fear.
- Where are the spikelets? - She caught herself. - The hare stole it! “She completely forgot that she herself left them in the clearing.” Over the past hour, the Mouse has lied so many times that she herself was confused about where the truth was and where the lie was.
She grabbed the basket and ran home. There she locked herself and sat for some time near the window, watching to see if she was being chased. She still vaguely remembered that she had somehow outwitted someone, but she could no longer remember who or how. And she really believed that the Hedgehog, the Squirrel and the Hare had taken something from her. The mouse put the basket on the table. It contained berries and mushrooms.
- What was taken from me? - The Mouse asked herself. Everything seems to be in place.
And then it seemed to her that if everything in the basket was in place, then, probably, something was missing in her pantry. She rushed to the pantry and began moving her supplies from place to place. And she still felt like something was missing. And the longer she searched, the greater the loss seemed to her, although what exactly she had lost, she could not say.
Then there was a knock on her door. Out of fear, the Mouse's heart almost jumped out.
- Mouse, are you home? - Voices were heard.
The mouse slowly looked out the window and saw a Hedgehog, a Hare and a Squirrel on the threshold. Out of fear, her heart began to beat even faster.
- Maybe she's not at home? - Asked the Hare.
“No, the door is locked from the inside,” Hedgehog noted.
- Mouse, open up, we won’t do anything bad to you! - Squirrel shouted.
- What happened to her? - Hedgehog was worried. - She was always so cheerful and cheerful.
“Yes, yes,” the Hare picked up, “and now he’s afraid of everything, he’s making up some stupid stories.”
- Mouse, open up! - Belka said strictly. - We know that you made up everything in order to beg for gifts for yourself.
- But we are not angry with you! - Hedgehog added.
- You would have immediately said that you had some difficulties with supplies, we would have helped. - The Hare explained.
The mouse sat quietly and did not answer. For some reason it was scary to go out to them. At first the Mouse didn’t understand why, but then she understood. It seemed to her that they were deceiving her too. After all, she deceived everyone, which means she could have been deceived too.
“Here, we have collected a gift for you,” said Belka, “there are some mushrooms, nuts, and berries.” This is for you. We'll leave this on the doorstep since you don't want to go out in front of us.
The friends put down the gifts, waited a minute to see if the Mouse would come out, and then walked away.
“It’s a pity that we were never able to talk to the Mouse,” Hedgehog sighed.
“Yes, I feel sorry for her,” agreed the Hare.
“It’s okay,” Belka consoled them, “she’ll sit for a while, come to her senses, and understand that all her fears and fantasies are due to lies.”
“Yes, really,” the Hare was surprised, “I didn’t even know that this could happen.” - Hedgehog, weren’t you the one who took the pine cones from me that I prepared for kindling? - The Hare asked and looked slyly at the Hedgehog.
At first the Hedgehog was afraid that his friend had become suspicious of the Mouse, but then he saw that he was joking and laughed. The hare also laughed. And Belka smiled and thought that it’s good to have friends whom you always trust.

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A mouse runs across the field. He sees that there is a tower:

No one answered. The mouse opened the door, entered and began to live.

The frog is jumping. He sees a teremok:

- Who lives in a little house, who lives in a low one?

- I, little mouse, and who are you?

- I'm a frog frog. Let me in.

And the two of them began to live together.

A bunny is running. He sees a teremok:

- Who lives in a little house, who lives in a low one?

- I, little mouse.

- I, frog-frog, and who are you?

“I’m a runaway bunny, my ears are long, my legs are short.” Let me go.

- OK Go!

The three of them began to live together.

A little fox runs and asks:

- Who lives in a little house, who lives in a low one?

- I, the mouse-norunzha.

- I, frog-frog.

- I, a running bunny, have long ears, short legs, and who are you?

- I am a fox-sister, Lizaveta-beautiful, fluffy tail. Let me go.

- Go, little fox.

The four of them began to live together.

A wolf is running across the field. He sees a mansion and asks:

- Who lives in a little house, who lives in a low one?

- I, little mouse.

- I, frog-frog.

- I, little fox-sister, Lizaveta-beauty, fluffy tail, and who are you?

- I am a wolf-wolf, a big mouth. Let me go.

- Okay, go, just live peacefully. The five of them began to live together.

A bear wanders, a clubfoot wanders. I saw the little mansion and roared:

- Who lives in a little house, who lives in a low one?

- I, little mouse.

- I, frog-frog.

- I, a running bunny, have long ears and short legs.

- I, little fox-sister, Lizaveta-beautiful, fluffy tail.

- I, a wolf-wolf, a big mouth, and who are you?

- I'm a bear, a little blooper!

And he didn’t ask to go into the mansion. He couldn’t get through the door, so he climbed up.

It swayed, crackled, and the tower fell apart. They barely had time to run out - a little mouse, a croaking frog, a running bunny, long ears, short legs, a little fox-sister, Lizaveta the beauty, a fluffy tail, a wolf-wolf, a big mouth.

And the bear, the little frog, went into the forest.

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There is a tower in a field. A small mouse runs past. She saw the tower, stopped and asked:

Nobody responds. The mouse entered the little mansion and began to live there.

A frog-frog galloped up to the mansion and asked:

Terem-teremok! Who lives in the mansion?

Me, little mouse! And who are you?

And I'm a frog.

Come live with me! The frog jumped into the tower. The two of them began to live together.

A runaway bunny runs past. He stopped and asked:

Terem-teremok! Who lives in the mansion?

Me, little mouse!

I, frog frog!

And who are you?

And I'm a runaway bunny.

Come live with us! The hare hops into the tower! The three of them began to live together.

A little fox-sister walks by. She knocked on the window and asked:

Terem-teremok! Who lives in the mansion?

I, little mouse.

I, frog frog.

I'm a runaway bunny.

And who are you?

And I am a fox-sister.

Come live with us! The fox climbed into the mansion. The four of them began to live together.

A gray barrel top came running, looked in the door and asked:

Terem-teremok! Who lives in the mansion?

I, little mouse.

I, frog frog.

I'm a runaway bunny.

Me, little fox-sister.

And who are you?

And I am a top-gray barrel.

Come live with us!

The wolf climbed into the mansion. The five of them began to live together. Here they live in a little house, sing songs.

Suddenly a clubfoot bear walks by. The bear saw the tower, heard the songs, stopped and roared at the top of his lungs:

Terem-teremok! Who lives in the mansion?

I, little mouse.

I, frog frog.

I'm a runaway bunny.

Me, little fox-sister.

I, the top-gray barrel.

And who are you?

And I'm a clumsy bear.

Come live with us!

The bear climbed into the tower. He climbed, climbed, climbed, couldn’t get in and said:

I’d rather live on your roof.

Yes, you will crush us.

No, I won't crush it.

Well then, climb up! The bear climbed onto the roof and just sat down - fuck! - the tower collapsed.