Last night I had the weirdest dream.
I guess you can call it a nightmare."

I'm only ten and a half...so I guess it's okay for me
to dream what grown-ups call figment of my imagination dreams.

I dreamt about a bunch of mice that lived
in a house that belonged to this lazy woman.


The woman never bothered the mice.

They ran in and out of their holes,
a zillion times every day.

They raced under tables and chairs chasing each other
all over the kitchen floor.

They scampered all through the cupboards.
The woman was too lazy to close them

The mice nibbled happily on bread crumbs.
They found cheese. They even found cookies, cake and pie.

The mice were having fun...BIG TIME...until...
One day...a cat moved into the house.

THAT DID IT. EVERYTHING GOT DIFFERENT.
THE MICE HAD AN ENEMY, THAT WANTED TO EAT THEM.

Every time they tried to sneak out of their holes...
the cat was, RIGHT THERE, waiting for them.

They were starving because they couldn't steal food.

Finally one of the mice cried out...

"OH NO. That cat's gotta go...or we'll always be hungry."

They all sat around in a circle and began to complain.

"We can't even snatch a crumb of bread,"

"How can we get rid of that cat"

"We can't get rid of her. She's that dumb woman's cat."

"OH. What shall we do?"

Finally one mouse said...

"Instead of complaining let's start planing."

"Planing?"

"Yeah, planing. I've thought up a clever plan."

"Well tell us, rat head. What's your plan?"

"My plan won't get rid of that cat...but it will keep us safe from her."

"YO...pump your plan in our ears."

Well that sneak creeps so quietly...that we can't hear her.
How about we tie a bell around her neck?
When she's comes to catch us...the bells goes jingle jingle and...
WE'RE SAVED BY THE BELL."

"OH. That's sooo clever...but that's sooo never."

"Why not?"

"Who's gonna tie the bell around the cat's neck?"

"Hmmmm...I hadn't given that much thought."

An aged-old grandfather mouse had been listening in.

"Let's decide who will do it," he suggested.

"Not I. Not I Not I. cried several scared voices.

The grandfather mouse asked the mouse who thought up the plan.

"Will you do it?"

"OH NO!" answered the mouse,

"Then we must do as we always do," said grandfather mouse.
"RUN! When we can, and get caught when we can't."

"AND REMEMBER."

"It is one thing to talk about a plan.
"It is another thing to make the plan work."