When talking about following rules, Abby will never forget her experience with her father and her pet Tobias, a small mouse at the airport years ago.
One day, Abby's father was taking her abroad and they were not allowed to take animals into another country. It was a rule. But Abby put the mouse into her bag secretly without telling her dad. When they arrived at the airport, they had to be checked by the X-ray machine. Abby felt her legs shaking and her heart beating fast. However, they passed.
On the plane, Abby opened up the bag after her dad fell asleep. Tobias was excited to jump out from the bag. But her dad didn't know it at all but slept.
After they landed, Abby's dad ticked（打勾） NO on a paper asking, "Are you bringing any live（活的） animals into the country?" But a man at the X-ray machine asked Abby to open her bag. I hen the man led Abby and her father into a room. There were some policemen and Tobias was on the desk. One policeman told Abby's dad, "This is very serious. You have tried to smuggle（偷运） an animal into this country." "It's my mistake," Abby said in a low voice. "Dad didn't know about this." The police looked at her, "What's your name? Have you ever been in trouble before?" Abby opened her mouth, but no sound came out. At last, her dad was chastised for what Abby did. And Tobias had to go into quarantine （隔离检疫） for six months.
It must be a real lesson for Abby. From then on, she never breaks the rules any more.
