He would drive into a filing station and say, "Five, please." When Margalo flew away to the north the following spring, Stuart went searching for her in a toy automobile with a real engine. He would have drowned that time, except for a friend of his, a little wrenlike bird named Margalo, who let him cling to her feet and carried him back to his own window sill. The can was emptied into a truck, the truck was emptied into a scow, and Stuart wasĬarried out to sea. Once he tried to go skating in Central Park but a dog chased him, and he had to hide in a celery grove on top of a garbage can. The blind rolled up and Stuart was imprisoned Once he tried to do gymnastics on the cord that hung from the window blind, to impress the household cat. In his pleasant, mouselike manner, shy but inquisitive, he was always getting into scrapes. He wore a gray hat and twirled a little cane. He weighed three and one-half ounces and was a little more than two inches tall, not counting the tail. At the age of 7, when he was fully grown, At birth he was so small that a three-cent stamp would have carried him anywhere in the United States. Named him, had a mouse's sharp nose, a mouse's whiskers and a mouse's tail. Little were normal persons in every way, their second son looked very much like a mouse. Hear Julie Andrews read from "Stuart Little".OctoStuart Little: Or New York Through the Eyes of a Mouse Stuart Little By E.B. Stuart Little: Or New York Through the Eyes of a Mouse
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