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ivvBeverlyCleary ILLUSTRATED BY Tracy DOckray ixTo Louis Darling 1916 1970 viiCOntents1. Ralph Hears a Distant Bugle 12. The Open ROad 233. An EducatiOnal TOy 494. Chum 675. The PersOnul MOwse 936. A Thief in the Craft ShOp 1137. The Escape 1348. Ralph Strikes a Bargain 1559. A DangerOus Plan 171AbOut the AuthOrOther bOOks by Beverly clearyCreditsCOverCOpyrightAbOut the Publisherviii1Ralph Hears aDistant BugleThe small brown mouse named Ralph who was hiding under the grandfather clock did not have much longer to wait before he could ride his motorcycle. The clock had struck eight already, and then eight thirty. Ralph was the only mouse in the Mountain View Inn, a run-down hotel in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, who 1owned a motorcycle. It was a mouse-sized red motorcycle, a present from a boy named Keith who had been a guest in Room 215 over the Fourth of July weekend. Ralph was proud of his motorcycle, but his brothers and sisters said he was selfish. I am not, said Ralph. Keith gave the motorcycle to me. That evening, while Ralph waited under the clock and watched the television set across the lobby, a man and a woman fol-lowed by a medium-sized boy walked into the hotel. They had the rumpled look of people who had driven many miles that day. The boy was wearing jeans, cowboy boots, and a white T-shirt with the words Happy Acres Camp stenciled across the front. Ralph observed the boy with interest. He was the right kind of boy, a boy sure to like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Since the day Keith had left the hotel, Ralph had 2longed for crumbs of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. A grating, grinding noise came from the works of the grandfather clock. Ralph clapped his paws over his ears. The clock 3 grumbled and groaned and managed to strike the hour. Nine oclock! The time almost had come.The stroke of nine was fol-lowed by the slow sad notes of music that lingered and died mysteriously in the dis-tance every ni