Use the story to answer the question.
The Little Mice
Once upon a time a prairie mouse busied herself
all fall storing away a cache of beans. Every
morning she was out early with her empty cast-off
snake skin, which she filled with ground beans and
dragged home with her teeth.
The little mouse had a cousin who was fond of
dancing and talk, but who did not like to work. She
was not careful to get her cache of beans and the
season was already well gone before she thought
to bestir herself. When she came to realize her
need, she found she had no packing bag. So she
went to her hardworking cousin and said:
"Cousin, I have no beans stored for winter and the
season is nearly gone. But I have no snakeskin to
gather the beans in. Will you lend me one?"
"But why have you no packing bag? Where were
you in the moon when the snakes cast off their
skins?"
"I was here."
"What were you doing?"
"I was busy talking and dancing."
"And now you are punished," said the other. "It is
always so with lazy, careless people. But I will let
you have the snakeskin. And now go, and by hard
work and industry, try to recover your wasted
time."
What does the first mouse think of her cousin?
(1 point)
She is lazy.
She is helpful.
She is smart.
She is a good dancer
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