The Mouse Family Robinson (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
Mice were dying, too, in the jaws of cats or traps, or of poisoning, or simply—like Mr. Brown—of old age. But never before had a mouse been given such a funeral as Mr. Brown was. “One thing I do know,” said Bill Black as he fed his fancy mice, “and that is, I’m not just going to chuck poor old Granddad in the trash. He shall have a proper burial in the garden.” Heaven only knows how Beaumont knew what was going on in the brain of his friend the young giant, but the fact remains that when Bill had dug a hole, he suddenly realized that there were seven little mourners at the graveside. Only Janet could not come out to pay her last respects. “I can’t leave the babies unprotected. Mr. Brown wouldn’t have wanted me to,” she said to John. But when Bill had carefully put the body in the grave, John and Ambrose and Beaumont and Camilla and Desdemona and Eustace and Felicity all crept to the edge for a last look at their old friend—“Uncle” to the young ones, “Mister”
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