Pit & Pat's Great Adventure: vol 1

By Jonathan Alan Solis

Pit & Pat are mice, brothers, and bicker constantly over almost everything. Their arguments end when a large can of baked beans lands close to their burrow. The journey to get a can opener becomes an adventure.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jonathan Alan Solis
• Release date: Jan 11, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224366903

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Pit & Pat’s

Great Adventure

by

Jonathan Alan Solid

©2020 Jonathan Alan Solis.

Chapters

Tinned surprise

Mission improbable

Help from a friend

Danger in the woods

Beans beans fried beans

A big day and bright idea

Tinned surprise

Pat sat eyes closed at the dinning table. Little thin-fingered claws clasped over his fury tummy. He wore a satisfying smile.

‘What are you so happy about?’ Pit stood annoyed with hands on hips. He was concerned that he could not smell breakfast being made.

‘It’s your turn to make breakfast dear brother. Why else would I be happy this morning?’ Pat answered with dreamy expectation of being served. It was his favourite meal above all others. Mainly because it was the first of the day. Given some thought; brunch, lunch, tea, supper and dinner were all just as hard to choose between.

‘How did you figure it was my turn?’ Pit pushed his round spectacles up his nose. It made him look more intelligent and serious at the same time. His eyes looked larger than life and ingredients were in the air for an argument to boil. Before they could begin; the ground began to shake. The shaking became a long loud rumble that filled the living room. They both needed a good shaking to stop the constant bickering. Not a day passed from sunrise to sunset without a missed opportunity to argue.

Both now wide eyed with fear; they grabbed the cotton reel table in the middle of the room. They tried in vein to steady themselves as everything wobbled terribly. Pictures, pans and pots, bits and bobs, rattled and tumbled all about them. They wondered if the roof would fall down on them. The shaking passed and soon was a distant rumble. All that remained was a dull echo in their ears. They scurried madly up the passage to look outside and got wedged like a cork at the entrance. They pushed, squeezed, then popped out landing in a heap. A cloud of dust settled down from the road. Overwhelmed by the sight; they were unable to quarrel about who should have gone first.

‘Pinch me Pit if it isn’t real.’ He was only too happy to oblige and pinched quite hard.

‘Ow! That hurt. You didn’t have to do it that hard. So you can’t see what I’m seeing?’

‘Of course I can dummy.’

‘So why did you pinch me?’ Pat groaned.

‘All I heard was pinch me.’ Pit grinned and shrugged his narrow round shoulders.

To their amazement, right before them stood a jumbo sized can of beans. A family sized tin would look huge to mice. They stood silently in awe.

‘It must have fallen out of the sky after the thunder and earthquake.’ Pat looked up at the sky shielding the sunlight from his eyes. Pit nodded in dismay while cleaning his spectacles.

‘It’s a sign.’ Pat went on to say as if spellbound. Pit could not let Pat’s fanciful imagination go further. He was weighing up the likely reasons for such a thing to happen.

‘Beans grow on the ground and in a factory are put in a can. If anything, it most probably fell from a pickup truck rather than a van or car. The road is uneven, bumpy and too narrow for a lorry. Then it almost certainly tumbled down the hill.’ Pat nodded with disappointment at the explanation that held no mystery.

‘See, that’s what we get for living so close to the edge of the meadows. I always said it was a bad idea. There are dangers out there.’ The picture label on the can absorbed him and he grinned in expectation.

‘In a way you’re right.’ Pat was stunned. He put his hand across his brother’s forehead. Surely he had a temperature and was becoming ill. Having his brother tell him that he was right had even made him forget his appetite.

‘Don’t you see; the timing couldn’t be better.’ They exchanged glances. Pit pointed at the beans smiling and nodding. Pat finally got it.

‘I know. There’s not a moment to waste. If only grandfather were here to see this. It