Klondike Mice

## Stats

**Klondike Mice** is the 24th episode of the series *The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures* that aired on May 23, 1998. The setting in this episode is Canada.

## Summary

On a boat going to Dawson City, people are celebrating and so are the mice because of the Klondike Gold Rush. Emily and Alexander are also there, and they are also excited for the gold rush adventure plus meeting Cousin Ned. When the boat arrives, everyone rushes off the boat, completely forgetting about their bags that fall into the water. As they walk, Emily gets hit with a cup causing her to fall in the water. Alexander jumps in as well and they both get in, but the current is too strong for them to row. Luckily, they are rescued by Ned. He shows them to Danny, his friend. Danny shows the mice a map left by his deceased grandpa that he can claim. Plus, he also left Danny a gold nugget. But that's not all, as Ned has a map of his own as well. They leave to start the gold rush and go to the claims office. Unfortunately, No-Tail No-Goodnik overhears this.

He gets in a disguise and announces to find a cheese and win a prize. Tripping prospector Ned, he takes him in, as Ned says he is hungry after all. No-Tail puts a piece of cheese in a green cup among a blue and orange cup, and tells him to guess which cup the cheese is under to win it, for a penny to play. Meanwhile, a man ties a claims officer up inside the office and makes an escape, when he runs into Danny's family. He pretends to work there and tries to leave for lunch, but Danny's father shows him the gold nugget, which grabs his attention. He shows the man the claim and he agrees to stamp it. The family hears a noise which is the claims officer trying to hit a crate, but the man says it is just mice, and pushes them out to get supplies. Though, he traces their map on another sheet of paper so he could get some gold for himself, then makes note that their claim expires in two days. He plans that if he could keep them stalling for the time, their land will be up.

When he exits once more, a sergeant named Sam Steel Rfrom the Royal Canadian Mountain Police asks if he have seen Soapy Smith, a wanted criminal. He says that he hasn't. Emily and Alexander climb up to the wanted poster and Emily draws facial hair around the printed man, revealing that this suspicious man who plans to claim the land is indeed Soapy Smith, so they run to warn Danny. Meanwhile, because Ned wanted to continue playing No-Tail's game but he ran out of coins, No-Tail insists that he gives him the map. Unwilling to, No-Tail makes an agreement that if he wins the game he can keep both the map and the cheese. While swishing the cups around the piece of cheese falls out of one of them, so Ned ends up losing both the game and his map because it isn't under the typical green cup.

Alexander and Emily find Ned, who tells them that he lost his map to the rat who now left. They ask him if he was wearing a disguise and had glasses, which he says yes, noting that was the infamous No-Tail No-Goodnik. They see him so they run after him, also finding Soapy Smith making a getaway on his horse. No-Tail hops on with him and the mice and Danny hitch on a horse wagon. Though, Danny's parents can't find him anywhere as he just wandered off, so they, along with Sam Steel, go to the claims office assuming that's where he went. That's where they find the real claims officer tied up, and he explains that Soapy Smith had done this and they took their claim. Meanwhile, Soapy hauls up Gold Hill with a wagon of supplies that he traded with his horse. Danny sees Soapy and yells at him to stop, creating an avalanche. While it happens, he loses them, but when it stops they don't give up. Soapy hauls his stuff onto a boat and makes his getaway.

They use the cart to make a boat, and while Alexander isn't willing to ride it, he does so after a bear scares him. It is a little bear who is trapped inside a cage. Danny frees it and it wants to come along with him. Danny invites him on, and names him Cody. Alexander hates it, as his adventure through the Klondike hasn't been that smooth. They ride down the rapids and find Soapy's boat, and a campfire. That night, Soapy, and No-Tail, have some sleep by the fire. Emily, Alexander, and Ned steal both Ned's map, and Danny's map. No-Tail then wakes up upset that his map has stolen, when he gets chased by Soapy for stepping on him. He then finds Danny running and runs after him, and No-Tail hitches a ride. While Danny chases Soapy and the mice ride on Cody, No-Tail nabs the map again. Alexander and Ned take care of No-Tail and opens a water hole to wash him down the spout. Meanwhile, Emily and Danny set up a trap inside the cave and Soapy falls for it and gets cornered by both the mama bear and Cody. Not only do the two bears reunite, but so do Danny and his parents. Sam Steel takes Soapy in, and just before they leave, Danny realizes he is in the claimed spot. He gets a pan and dips it into the water, finding a piece of his gold that No-Tail tries to take. In the sergeant's cabin, Ned mentions that his uncle's treasure should be at a certain spot, and he finds it under a loose floorboard. It isn't gold, but rather cheese. Emily and Alexander share some back at their home.

## Trivia

* When Danny (and the mice) jump off the wagon they ride, the sides of the wagon wheels aren't colored in.
* Ned says that his cheese treasure is "aged cheddar", when it is really Swiss.
* This is the second episode to take place in Canada. The first episode was *Mice on Ice*.