The Tale of Two Bad Mice

Abstract

The story tells of two mice named Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca who move into a doll’s house and try to eat the toy food, which looks so appetizing. When they discover it’s inedible, ‘those mice set to work to do all the mischief they could – especially Tom Thumb!’ They start to destroy parts of the house and make off with some of the furniture! Later in the story, they pay their debts by leaving a crooked sixpence in a Christmas stocking and cleaning the house each morning. The story concludes that they were ‘not so very, very naughty after all’.