A Wily Mouse
From time to time I have been asked advice on all sorts of matters, and a week two ago I sent some ideas to a friend asked me how to catch a wily mouse. Wrote : ' It came in some straw packill around a present sent to my daughter am seems to be gifted with human intelligel0 have tried two traps but it ignores them. 5,1 though not liking the idea much, 1 bout some poison. The first night I put it do; by itself but it was also ignored so 01 following night I spread some of it on of crust and put them on a small piece paper on the hearth. The following rnort14w there was no sign of anything on the or round about it so we congratulated a', selves on having got rid of our unweIcoa!, lodger. Alas, when my wife moved the big chair back from the hearth later, there the bread hidden underneath it. Last nir, I tried poison in conjunction with a which I baited with poisoned crust. 'cr!' morning the bait was untouched and the tr, unsprung, but the loose pieces of bread disappeared. I pushed back the settee 3°,1 there was the poisoned bread beneath it ! it has started fluffing fibres of a carpet it 1113c1 be making a nest somewhere. It is jet-10 in colour and we are wondering whethere is a young rat.' I have not heard if the bl°„i ' mouse' has been caught yet. The treattne." I suggested .was quite lethal.
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