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"Please, Mrs. Owl," said he, "how can I get to the moon?"

Down flew Mrs. Owl. "This is the way to the moon," she said, and she
caught him up in her beak and carried him back to the owl house where
she lived.

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When Willie Mouse saw all the owlets with their beaks gaping open he
began to be frightened, for he feared that Mrs. Owl was going to eat
him all up. But he didn't know that a good green elf, who lived in the
trunk of the tree, was near at hand, and just as Mrs. Owl opened her
beak the leaves rustled and there stood Mr. Elf, who jumped to the
ground with Willie on his back.

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When the good green elf had shown him the way home he thought he would
ask him if the moon were really made of green cheese, but all of a
sudden Mr. Elf disappeared, and Willie Mouse still thinks that one
day he will find the moon and have enough cheese to last him all his
life.

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