And often they got so interested listening, that when he had finished they found their fire had gone right out; and they had to scurry round to get more sticks and build a new one.
No longer will she have time to sit on the front porch steps on a summer day and watch an ant scurry across the crack in a sidewalk.
My husband was enjoying the day off from work and watched me scurry about the house.
"They wanted to sniff out the changes ahead of time and scurry into action, rather than get hemmed in and be left behind.
I'll ask my children who they think I am -- Sniff, Scurry, Hem or Haw -- and who they feel they are.
They just needed to be monitored so they didn't scurry off in the wrong direction.
" "I can see now that instead of being like Sniff and Scurry, we were like Hem.
Sniff, Scurry, Hem or Haw?
Then he wondered for a moment whether it was real or just his imagination, until he saw his old friends Sniff and Scurry.
Then he reminded himself, if Sniff and Scurry could move on, so could he!
Now and then Haw thought about his mice friends, Sniff and Scurry, and wondered if they had found any cheese yet.
While Sniff and Scurry had quickly moved on, Hem and Haw continued to hem and haw.
Two were mice named ''Sniff'' and ''Scurry'' and two were little people -- beings who were as small as mice but who looked and acted a lot like people today.
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