The Blue Suit of A Little Dog--A Transcription of A Japanese Children Story

Once upon a time, a very little dog lived with a very kind grandpa. The dog is so little, the kind grandpa called his dog, the 'Little Mouse'.

Little Mouse loves to bark and hunt. Although he is so little, he can bark as loud as a big dog. When Little Mouse was hunting, he uses his nose in search of his prey. Most of the time, he got nothing.

One day, he was successful in finding a cave where a mother rabbit was babysitting with her four little bunny. Little Mouse came to the mother rabbit, and barked as hard as he could. Mother rabbit, however, did not move even an inch from where she was sitting.

"Why you are not afraid? Why you do not run away from me, the hunter?" asked Little Mouse.

"Why should I ? You are so little; you would not do any harm to us. Come, don't be silly. Don't bark. My babies are sleeping. You may wake up my babies. Come to see my babies. Aren't they so cute?" said the mother rabbit.

Little Mouse then stopped barking and went with mother rabbit to see her sleeping babies.

"They are so cute." said Little Mouse.

From that moment, Little Mouse had made friends with the mother rabbit and her babies. He comes to cave to visit them when there were chances.

The days become colder. The kind grandpa made a blue suit for Little Mouse to wear it.

"Isn't this blue suit handsome for you?" said the kind grandpa.

Although Little Mouse looks handsome with the blue suit, he feels uncomfortable with a suit wrapped around his fur skin. One day, he visited the cave again and asked mother rabbit to take the suit off him. Mother rabbit did exactly like that and said,

"This blue suit can be a sleeping blanket for my babies."

When Little Mouse returned home without the suit, grandpa had realized the suit was lost.

"Where is your blue suit?" asked grandpa.

"Lost on the road", said Little Mouse.

"Let's search for it. Trace where did you go and find the suit back." said the grandpa. Grandpa and Little Mouse walk to find the blue suit. Little Mouse pretended that he was searching hard; but in the end, they turned out nothing.

Now Little Mouse walked on the streets without the blue suit, but he actually see the blue suit as the blanket often in the cave where he had made new friends.