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About This Passage
One of the warmest moments in Chapter 6. After wandering a hundred empty rooms, Mary finds a tiny family of mice living inside a velvet cushion. The sentence is gentle and unhurried — just right for careful copying.
The bright eyes belonged to a little gray mouse, and the mouse had eaten a hole into the cushion and made a comfortable nest there. Six baby mice were cuddled up asleep near her.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 6 to your grown-up. Tell how it was raining at Misselthwaite Manor and Mary could not go outside. Tell how Martha told her about Dickon and the fox cub and the crow named Soot. Tell how Mary walked through the long house and found a little gray mouse with six babies in a velvet cushion. End with what Mary heard again through the wall, and what Mrs. Medlock said to her.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story makes you think Mary was starting to like hearing Martha talk about Dickon and the moor cottage?
- How do you know from the chapter that Mary was surprised and happy when she found the little gray mouse and her six babies?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
more than one mouse — the small gray animals Mary finds in the cushion.
Item 2
a small cozy home an animal builds for its babies.
Item 3
a tiny furry animal with a long tail and bright eyes.
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