She was suddenly frightened A small mouse alone in the big forest The wind howled and her tail was ice-cold Her whiskers trembled Maybe she should call the police Then she remembered she was the police BuQy stared out into the darkness She was afraid But she was a police oTcer who always did what she had to do In that regard she was very brave She called out Welcome to the police station We’re here to help you Her voice was a little shaky Then she went back inside She put on her Rne police hat and sat down at the large desk A little mouse in a pink nightie A big hat with a gold badge A big stamp in her hand She bravely hummed a song she was meaning to write A marching song for police on parade She wrote a note about what had happened 4
BuQy had been working on her writing all summer She could do it very well now But scrabbler was a word she’d never written before She took out the stamp Placed it on the paper Moved it a little to the right Moved it a little to the left Pushed it with all her might Kla-dunk When morning came and the sun shone in through the window she was still sitting at the desk She hadn’t had much sleep that night BuQy made a cup of tea and ate her morning cake a walnut ball which tasted wonderful She took an extra walnut too Eating nuts made her full of energy 5
Then she washed her face dipping the tips of her Rngers in a little water and polishing her nose She took oQ her nightie and put on her everyday clothes She put the police hat back on the hat stand Then she set oQ walking briskly through the forest These days Gordon was living in a little house by the lake A wisp of smoke curled from the chimney It looked very peaceful On the veranda was a stripy deck chair Gordon’s black raincoat was hanging from a hook BuQy knocked on the door and opened it Gordon wasn’t home The gigantic bed took up most of the room It was nicely made The woodstove glowed with the remains of a Rre A teapot a cup and a book lay open on the bedside table There were a lot of cake crumbs BuQy sniQed them Hmm Gordon had also eaten walnut 6
balls for breakfast The cup was empty The teapot was a little warm He’d eaten breakfast a short while ago then gone out on an errand I’ll wait for him BuQy decided She looked at the book Funny Stories about Mice and Toads Gordon had just Rnished a story that went like this There was a baby mouse who caught sight of a bat Look Mother an angel She giggled A bat is a mouse with wings that can Sy A Sying mouse She could picture Gordon roaring with laughter making his big belly wobble as he lay there reading and eating walnut balls She missed him It’s not good for police to be alone she thought gloomily Two police think twice as well as one Two police are twice as brave Then she sat down in the deck chair on the 7
