It was just after 9 pm and Nurse Flo was about to go bed
when she heard some squeaking at the Medical Centre door. She thought, that sounds
like the baby guinea pigs that she has seen on many occasions running around outside
at K. C. Bunnyborough.
Nurse Flo puts her head band back on and opens the Medical Centre
door. Outside two baby guinea pigs tell her that they had been playing with a
baby mouse during the day and that the baby mouse has no parents or home and is
sleeping under a hedge. The guinea pigs ask Nurse Flo to come and get the baby mouse
and ask if she could give it a home, ( Nurse Flo is already looking after three
rabbits with disabilities who have no parents).
Nurse Flo agrees to go with the baby guinea pigs to the
hedge where the baby mouse is sleeping. When they arrive at the hedge they can
see the baby mouse’s back legs because it is a starry night.
The baby guinea pigs start squealing to wake the baby mouse up.
The baby mouse wakes up and sees the baby guinea pigs and Nurse Flo with them
and gets scared. The baby guinea pigs convince the baby mouse that Nurse Flo is here to take it back to the
Medical Centre where she will care for him.
He eventually crawls forward and Nurse Flo is able to pick
him up and carry him to the Medical Centre.
At the Medical Centre Nurse Flo prepares a bottle of warm
milk and gives it to the baby mouse. Nurse Flo tells the baby guinea pigs to go
home and they can come and visit him any time during the days ahead.
The baby mouse finishes his bottle and Nurse Flo carries him
upstairs to her bedroom and puts him in the cradle and she gets into bed and they
both go to sleep.
The news has spread around K. C. Bunnyborough that Nurse Flo
has adopted a baby mouse who she has called Mace. It is just over a week later
when Mr Blue hears scratching during the night on the outside door of his house. Mr Blue
goes down stairs and opens the door and sees a baby white mouse. The baby white
mouse can’t explain why she is there. Because it is night time and Mr Blue can’t
see her parents around he invites the baby mouse to come inside.
Mrs Blue gets up and gives the baby mouse a bottle of milk and puts it to bed in a cradle.
In the morning she takes the baby mouse to the
Medical Centre.
At the Medical Centre Nurse Flo and the rabbits that live
with her are outside watching Mace playing in the water. Mrs Blue asks Nurse
Flo could she also look after this baby mouse that has arrived. Nurse Flo
agrees to look after the baby mouse and names her Snowdrop. Nurse Flo and Mrs
Blue wonder if any more baby mice will arrive at K. C. Bunnyborough.
