Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Frisby was able, through luck and hard work, to keep her family-there were four children-happy and well fed. A short tunnel through the earth behind the block connected the two rooms.Īlthough she was a widow (her husband had died only the preceding summer), Mrs. The bedroom, formed by the second oval, was warm but dark, even at midday. A tunnel to the surface-earth of the garden, dug so that it was slightly larger than a mouse and slightly smaller than a cat’s foreleg, provided access, air, and even a fair amount of light to the living room. Frisby and her children had collected, the house stayed dry, warm and comfortable all winter. Lined with bits of leaves, grass, cloth, cotton fluff, feathers and other soft things Mrs. It lay on its side in such a way that the solid parts of the block formed a roof and a floor, both waterproof, and the hollows made two spacious rooms. It was a slightly damaged cinder block, the hollow kind with two oval holes through it it had somehow been abandoned in the garden during the summer and lay almost completely buried, with only a bit of one corner showing above ground, which is how Mrs. Frisby and her family were especially lucky in the house itself. In the soft earth of a bean, potato, black-eyed pea and asparagus patch there is plenty of food left over for mice after the human crop has been gathered.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O

It was a winter house, such as some field mice move to when food becomes too scarce, and the living too hard in the woods and pastures.

Frisby, the head of a family of field mice, lived in an underground house in the vegetable garden of a farmer named Mr.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien