MOUSE IN THE WALL
There was something scuttling among the !ayes at the foot of the wall, so I disturbed the debris with a stick. Two field mice bolted. °he went along the side of the wall and I lost track of him. The other vanished immediately and I saw that he had gone into a small hole in the mortar sealing the wall. I was looking at this when I heard a scraping sound a little .above me, and was astonished to see the mouse looking out from a hole about three feet up. lie withdrew his head at once and I wondered Where he had cone. until he suddenly scurried
over the coping at the top. It intrigued me to think of the mouse spiralling up through the cavities in the centre of the wall. Perhaps the wall was a place where he travelled about, stored his food and sheltered from his enemies. I had no doubt that his mate had gone to another entry, and they were probably re- united while I stood pondering.
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