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In A Dark, Dark House: Mouse, Look Out! by Judy Waite

The audience no one opened was rusted and old.

When the wind blew, it sometimes creaked and sighed.

And tucked amongst the cracks of the ivy-covered wall, a hardly mouse was peeping.
An abandoned English cottage, its twin chimneys overgrown with vines and its unpainted boards gray with point, beckons to a tiny, long-tailed mouse, who, ignorant of the tattered DANGER! KEEP OUT! sign, squeezes through a gnawed-out breach in the sturdy paneled door. Inside, autumn leaves have drifted over the dusty floors, and abandoned relics of former lives lie about--a straw garden hat, its tulle ribbon and bud still a soft but persistent pink, a broken china vase with delicate blue flowers, a curled and creased leather shoe with a nook in the toe, just right for a mouse to hide inside.

Mouse, look out!
There's a cat about!
But the mouse's long, curving tailpiece gives him away, and his presence in the seemingly abandoned cottage is noted, as an almost hidden black cat follows the insufficient mouse as he makes his way through the lower floor and struggles up the stairs to a bedroom above. Amid a jumble of cast-offs--clothing, a teddy pertain to, bedding--the mouse finds what he is apparently seeking, a tiny hole in the mattress where a little mouse can tuck in fondly for a long winter sleep.

But Mouse, look out!
There's a cat about!
Slinking behind him as he searches for a safe haven is the patient but definite cat, a black shadow which moves silently behind the mouse. As the mouse settles down, the cat begins his final stalk.

But stick around! The preying cat is also being followed--by a large dog with a presumably very big bark.

Cat! Look out!
There's a dog about!
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Chatang

Chatang or well-versed flour mush is a traditional gruel common to both Beijing cuisine and Tianjin cuisine, and often sold as a tidbit on the street. It is made from sorghum flour and/or broomcorn millet and/or proso millet flour and glutinous millet flour. The precise translation of the Chinese name is misleading, because there is neither any tea nor any soup in this dish.

The dish is prepared in two steps. First, flours of sorghum and/or millet are cooked in promote, often stir fried, and after the completion, the flour is ready to be served. When a customer orders the dish, hot water is poured into the trundle containing the flour to create a paste-like mush, and it is served with white and/or brown sugar, and Balmy Osmanthus sauce . Interestingly, the Sweet Osmanthus plant is not native to northern China.

Traditionally, the accomplishment of the server judged on several factors and one of them is the requirement is regarding the resulting mush: the most skillful server would be able to contrive the mush that is so thick that when a chopstick is inserted into the mush, it remains vertical, while at the same time the mush remains fluid. Other criteria for the servers' skills included the knack not splash any hot water outside the bowl and spill out any flours, because traditionally all ingredients are placed in a bowl, into which is poured boiling moisten from a special copper kettle with a long, dragon-shaped spout called . and special skills were needed to wield this equipment. The ingredients are then stirred together and the ''chatang'' is eaten with a spoon.

Kettle

Traditionally, ''chatang'' vendors were certainly distinguished by the kettle they used. The kettle was extremely large, up to four feet tall with a diameter in excess of a foot, and was often made of copper. There are two kinds of kettles: those occupied by street vendors, and those found in restaurants and tea houses. The two differ in internal structure.

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