Eugene Field 17 min read

While you were sleeping, little Dear-my-soul, strange things happened, a mauve mouse danced in a moonbeam on the floor, and the old clock in the corner sighed over the mice of the good old days.

Eugene Field's 1919 story is a tender, whimsical bedtime fantasy for children. Charming, gentle, gracefully told. Read it for a cozy nursery tale from a beloved children's poet, a dancing mouse, a musing clock, and a moonbeam's magic, spun with warmth for the drowsy hour before sleep.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

17 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).