The Cat, the Rooster and the Young Mouse

A young mouse returned to his mother after going out of their hole for the very first time. “Mother, I came across two most wonderful animals. One was beautiful and gentle with velvety fur and a fine wavy tail; the other was a frightening monster with pieces of red skin on its head and under its chin that moved with every step it took. Then it let out a terrible sound just as I was going to talk to the kind-looking one.”
“Oh, my son,” said the mother mouse,” your monster was a harmless bird who was trying to warn you but the other was a blood thirsty cat who would have eaten you up in a minute.”

The young mouse had gone outside his hole
1. for lunch.
2. for the first time
3. many times.
The mouse said the two animals he saw were
1. scary.
2. funny.
3. wonderful.
The beautiful, gentle animal with the wavy tail was a
1. cat.
2. pig.
3. another mouse.
The young mouse thought the cat was
1. beautiful and good.
2. scary.
3. funny.
The animal that looked like a monster with red skin on his head was a
1. cat.
2. rooster.
3. a monster.
The rooster crowed loudly when the young mouse tried to
1. eat some of its corn.
2. laugh at him.
3. talk to the kind-looking animal.
The mother told the young mouse that the rooster was
1. harmless and trying to warn him.
2. funny and to ignore him.
3. really a terrible monster.
The moral of this story is to
1. look at what people look like.
2. don’t talk to nice looking people.
3. look at what is on the inside of a person, not just at what they look like on the outside.