More Adventures from Mousetown

About the Book

The mice make their second trip to the outside world and this time take an airplane from Arizona to Vermont, where they visit the Green Mountains and learn how to get maple syrup from maple trees the correct way. In New Hampshire at Franconia Notch, a fi ve-mile-long gap within the serene and unwavering gaze of the Great Stone Face, the Old Man of the Mountain. The mice are very active. In the White Mountains, the mice go to the Flume Gorge and walk the wooden boardwalk through a natural cleft in the bedrock. One of the mice, Harrison, falls into the water there. The mice next visit the Old Man of the Mountain, the Great Stone Face, on a rock outcrop high up on the west wall of Cannon Mountain; here, one of the rodents falls off the Old Man’s nose and lands into Profi le Lake. Dr. Swoon falls some 1,200 feet, but the medical-trained mouse is pulled out unhurt. The mice take the tramway up Cannon Mountain, and they drive up the 6,228-foot Mount Washington in the White Mountains range. They climb up Loon Mountain and on another mountain fi nd a haunted house that they have to deal with. They have a run-in with some no-toothed mountain people carrying long rifl es and shotguns and rolling large barrels fi lled with whiskey down a narrow trail. Morris Cattleburger suspects that they might be moon shiners. The rodents go to Lake Winnipesaukee and board a tour boat there for the trip around the lake, all 183 miles of coastline and 300 islands. One of the islands the boys went to had rattlesnakes on it, and they eyed the rodents suspiciously The rodents, after their second trip to the outside world, are ready to go back to Mousetown far below the earth’s surface, and they do after saying good-bye to some of their friends they will leave behind. They will appear in one hundred more chapters after reaching there.

About the Author

n/a