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ONCE, long ago in a land far away, there lived four little characters who
ran through a maze looking for cheese to nourish them and make them happy.

Two were mice, named "Sniff" and "Scurry" and two were littlepeople-beings
who were as small as mice but who looked and acted a lot like people today.
Their names were "Hem" and "Haw."
Due to their small size, it would be easy not to notice what the four of
them were doing. But if you looked closely enough, you could discover the
most amazing things!

Every day the mice and the littlepeople spent time in the maze looking for
their own special cheese. The mice, Sniff and Scurry, possessing only simple
rodent brains, but good instincts, searched for the hard nibbling cheese
they liked, as mice often do.

The two littlepeople, Hem and Haw, used their brains, filled with many
beliefs, to search for a very different kind of Cheese - with a capital C -
which they believed would make them feel happy and successful.

As different as the mice and littlepeople were, they shared something in
common: every morning, they each put on their jogging suits and running
shoes, left their little homes, and raced out into the maze looking for
their favorite cheese.

The maze was a labyrinth of corridors and chambers, some containing
delicious cheese. But there were also dark corners and blind alleys leading
nowhere. It was an easy place for anyone to get lost.

However, for those who found their way, the maze held secrets that let them
enjoy a better life.

The mice, Sniff and Scurry, used the simple, but inefficient,
trial-and-error method of finding cheese. They ran down one corridor and if
it proved empty, they turned and ran down another.

Sniff would smell out the general direction of the cheese, using his great
nose, and Scurry would race ahead. They got lost, as you might expect, went
off in the wrong direction and often bumped into walls.

However, the two littlepeople, Hem and Haw, used a different method that
relied on their ability to think and learn from their past experiences,
although, they would sometimes get confused by their beliefs and emotions.

Eventually in their own way, they all discovered what they were looking
for - they each found their own kind of cheese one day at the end of one of
the corridors in Cheese Station C.

Every morning after that, the mice and the littlepeople dressed in their
running gear and headed over to Cheese Station C. It wasn't long before they
each established their own routine.

Sniff and Scurry continued to wake early every day and race through the
maze, always following the same route.

When they arrived at their destination, the mice took off their running
shoes, tied them together and hung them around their necks-so they could get
to them quickly whenever they needed them again. Then they enjoyed the
cheese.

In the beginning Hem and Haw also raced toward Cheese Station C every
morning to enjoy the tasty new morsels that awaited them.

But after a while, a different routine set in for the littlepeople.

Hem and Haw awoke each day a little later, dressed a little slower, and
walked to Cheese Station C. After all, they knew where the Cheese was now
and how to get there.

They had no idea where the Cheese came from, or who put it there. They just
assumed it would be there.

As soon as Hem and Haw arrived at Cheese Station C each morning, they
settled in and made themselves at home. They hung up their jogging suits,
put away their running shoes and put on their slippers. They were becoming
very comfortable now that they had found the Cheese.

"This is great," Hem said. "There's enough Cheese here to last us forever."
The littlepeople felt happy and successful, and thought they were now
secure.

It wasn't long before Hem and Haw regarded the Cheese they found at Cheese
Station C as their cheese. It was such a large store of Cheese that they
eventually moved their homes to be closer to it, and built a social life
around it.

To make themselves feel more at home, Hem and Haw decorated the walls with
sayings and even drew pictures of Cheese around them which made them smile.
One read:

 

Sometimes Hem and Haw would take their friends by to see their pile of
Cheese at Cheese Station C, and point to it with pride, saying, "Pretty nice
Cheese, huh?" Sometimes they shared it with their friends and sometimes they
didn't.

"We deserve this Cheese," Hem said. "We certainly had to work long and hard
enough to find it." He picked up a nice fresh piece and ate it.

Afterwards, Hem fell asleep, as he often did.

Every night the littlepeople would waddle home, full of Cheese, and every
morning they would confidently return for more.

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