"What do you think I have got here?" said Ole-Luk-Oie, "Do not

be frightened, and you shall see a little mouse." And then he held out

his hand to him, in which lay a lovely little creature. "It has come

to invite you to a wedding. Two little mice are going to enter into

the marriage state tonight. They reside under the floor of your

mother's store-room, and that must be a fine dwelling-place."

"But how can I get through the little mouse-hole in the floor?"

"Leave me to manage that," said Ole-Luk-Oie. "I will soon make you