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What if the smallest creatures and quietest days hold the things most worth noticing?
In The Singing Mouse Stories, Emerson Hough brings together short, gentle tales of nature, animals and remembered days. His eye for the land shapes a world of outdoor life and simple pleasures. Here, ordinary things invite a closer look, and small moments offer room for feelings that a busy day can leave unnoticed.
The collection explores memory and the wisdom hidden in everyday life. Its themes include a writer shaped by open country, the feelings small creatures can carry, and the weight of remembered days. Care for animals and respect for the land give these tales their quiet appeal, without the rush of a fast, busy plot.
What you’ll discover
- An eye for nature Look closely at outdoor life with a writer drawn to the land.
- Small creatures, deep feelings Discover how animal tales make room for patience, fear, courage and home.
- The pull of memory Explore remembered days and the feelings that give ordinary moments their weight.
- Lessons close at hand Consider how care for animals and respect for the land can offer wisdom.
- Room to read slowly Enjoy short tales in small pieces, with time to linger over simple pleasures.
Who will love it
This book is for readers who love campfires, rivers and mountains, who enjoy short pieces one at a time, and who like a quiet voice remembering boyhood and the wild West.
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- A worn room and a mouse that sings
- Youth comes back through the old songs
- Wild places speak to those who listen
- Death is treated as a beginning
- Mountains, wounded dogs and passing warriors
- The best hunt was a boyhood afternoon
- Truth, cities and shadows are real in memory
- Love outlasts every loss in this land
Who’s who
- The Singing MouseA tiny red-eyed singer who appears at midnight and shows the author scenes of memory, nature and the beyond.
- The authorA lonely, older outdoorsman in a worn room who longs for the youth, friends and wild places he has known.
- The two boysYoung brothers who wander a strange road near the Delectable Mountains and set out to catch their first real quarry.
- The two friends at the oaksAn older and a younger man who camp each year by the same lake, sharing grace, fire and talk.
- The man of the mountainA climber who loves lonely summits, sits down to rest on one high peak, and becomes part of it.
- The princessA beautiful woman from ancient Egypt whose golden shoes carry her story, loved in life and in memory.
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by Emerson Hough · 1895
A small mouse sings by a dying fire and carries a lonely man to a prairie, a lake and a lost city.
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What would you give for a small voice that turns a worn room into a hall of gold? A man sits alone near midnight.
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A worn room and a mouse that sings
The book opens with a man showing you his room. He offers what little he has. There is a table, a fire and no keys. His coat is worn, his old gun is rubbed smooth, and the silk on his fishing rod is fraying. He asks you not to mock these things, even if your own are finer.
Then he tells you the secret of the room. The Singing Mouse will not come out while visitors are there. Only after the fire burns low, near midnight, does it appear and ask for a bit of bread. It folds its tiny paws, turns its red eye on him, and sings.
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Hough, Emerson. The Singing Mouse Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-singing-mouse-stories.
Hough, E. (2026). The Singing Mouse stories. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-singing-mouse-stories (Original work published 1895)
Hough, Emerson. The Singing Mouse Stories. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-singing-mouse-stories.
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What is The Singing Mouse Stories about?
It is a set of short prose pieces in which a small mouse sings to a lonely man by his fire. Each song carries him to a memory, a wild place, or a dream about love and death.
Who is the Singing Mouse?
The mouse is a magical visitor who comes out near midnight when the author is alone. Its song makes the room vanish and shows him lands where memory and nature stay alive.
What does the Singing Mouse stand for?
It stands for imagination and memory, the gift that makes a plain life rich. In the land of the mouse, old friends, rivers and mountains are still present and still speak.
The author
Emerson Hough
1857–1923 · American Western novelist
Emerson Hough was an American writer born in Newton, Iowa, in 1857. He worked as a journalist and lived in Chicago. He wrote novels and nonfiction about the American West. His books include The Mississippi Bubble, published in 1902, and The Covered Wagon, published in 1922. He died in Evanston, Illinois, in 1923.
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