Further Adventures of Snuze

By E. Rutherford

Snuze continues his garden journey meeting lots of new animals and birds.Having settled comfortably, he becomes important to the family of mice he has entered into.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jul 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481775588

E. Rutherford

E. Rutherford was born and raised in the Channel Island of Guernsey where these books are set. With such a marvelous place to live, she had a wonderful childhood and loads of experiences: doing well at primary school and later gaining a place at the Girls Grammar School on the island; learning to help others; working while still at school with the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade; pitch a tent, find and cook food with the Guide and Scout movement; and learning some Judo in her spare time! Whilst with the Grammar School, she joined the Boys Grammar School sailing club, learning to sail dinghies and small catamarans, row a dinghy, fish, and generally look after a boat and gaining a great respect for the sea. Family outings were often in her father’s yacht, Jabberwock. I think this indicates where the love of books and reading came from (C. S. Lewis’s Alice in Wonderland). Leaving the island to pursue a career at 17yrs (there were not many opportunities on the islands at that time). Met and married for the first time, marrying twice in all, up to date! For many years after, the children grown, she was running her own business, mainly office work, as an adjunct to the family business of estate agency. Now with four children, ten grandchildren, and one great grandchild, she has had loads of opportunities to both read and make up stories, over the years of their upbringing. E. Rutherford is now retired and lives alone with two big cats, Caesar and Cleopatra (Maine Coon and Turkish Fan cross), and two small (micro) cats, Jasper and Muffin, in Poole in Dorset, with an inbred love of the sea—where else? She keeps a close connection with her family. Steam trains, reading, classical music, and photography are the main interests. And writing stories for children!

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Further Adventures of Snuze

E. Rutherford 2013

The story so far: Snuze was a small young house mouse, whose whole family died of poisoning whilst Snuze slept. He departed the house and went into the nearby attached garden. His adventures there started when he met Cat, followed by meeting Slip (the snail) and Connie another mouse who lived with her extended family in the garden, which was perched atop a small cliff beside an old stone quarry full of water. His adventures took him to discovery of other inhabitants of the garden, a trip on a boat/leaf, and finally to saving some other survivors from the house. Several of which were his real brothers and sisters …..

Snuze was woken by a wail, he started up and then sank back into his sleeping chair, still cradling the youngest of his new family a female named Tweet. It wasn’t her causing the wailing noise, but one of the other youngsters and he could see several ‘Mothers’ in attendance.

It was the morning after they had all been rescued, and so far, he had not managed to get all their names into his head. That would come, he knew. The Chief Mouse, Rockface, had made him responsible for these new youngsters joining the garden mice, and had given him a new larger cavern to live in to accommodate them all. (Actually he gave him the cavern before he knew about the mice needing to be rescued.)

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Getting up, he handed Tweet to one of his helpers, he stretched and yawned, making a move out of the door as everything seemed to be in order and the youngsters all being fed. He climbed down the wall to ground level, only to be met by Cat demanding his daily story And moaning about the fact that all the mice seemed to be busy. So Snuze sat down and told Cat the story of the new babies and their rescue.

Tiddles, that was Cat’s real name, had closed his eyes as usual when being read to, opened his eyes and looked hard at Snuze. ‘That was real?’ he asked ‘A real story?’ Snuze nodded his head confirming that it was. Cat just sat, seemingly amazed. So Snuze stood, gave a small wave and continued on his way.

Snuze made his way across a narrow part of the garden, and carefully looking round for any danger, he continued down the stairway to the water’s edge. Checking the leaf/boat was still tied up and floating. He took his cotton