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Today's story, 'The Mouse Ghost' is a fun story where a mouse fed up with his small size tries something to scare the bigger animals. Does he succeed? Let’s listen to the story.

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Transcript

First of all, you all know a mouse is a very tiny animal.

Children, can you name two other animals who are tiny?

There was once a tiny little mouse who was extremely terrified of being trampled and squished by all the other animals in the forest that he always hid in the bushes.

“Why I am so tiny? Looks like all these big animals enjoy scaring me and threatening me! I wish I could give them a taste of their own medicine.” He used to think.

One day as the mouse was wandering around during the night, a strong wind began to blow. Suddenly, a white cloth came flying with the wind and landed over the mouse. As he began to shuffle around, an idea came to his mind.  

Children, can you guess what idea did he get?

Let’s listen ahead.

So, as the mouse was trying to wriggle out of that piece of white cloth, he got the idea that with that white cloth over him he could pretend to be a vicious GHOST!

And that is what he did.

During the night he would keep on the white cloth over his body and loom around the forest till some animals spotted him. They were instantly petrified. Soon word began to spread and all the animals found out that there was a ghost who lived on the dark path in the forest. 

The mouse was pretty happy. Now he did not have to fear being trampled by the animals and could live in peace since none of them was brave enough to cross the path where a ghost had been spotted, and if they did, the mouse would chase them away. 

One day, as the seasons changed, a lot of animals had to migrate and had to go down the path where the ghost lived. 

Children, migration means moving from one place to another.

Animals migrate to protect themselves from extreme weather conditions or to look for food.

“Oh boy, oh boy, I hope the ghost isn’t around today” whispered one of them. 

But as soon as they began to walk down that path, the mouse appeared and began to chase them out. But suddenly a gush of wind blew and the white cloth flew off the teeny tiny mouse and he was exposed. 

“Look that’s not a ghost, it’s a meek little mouse pretending to be a ghost!” someone called.

All the animals were so angry that they chased him out of the forest and he was never allowed to come back.