New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-08-04

light I saw ! big mouse scamper away over
the covers. peered cautiously over the
edge Of the couch, and two more scooted
from beneath the cot, while a sleek,
bright-eyed rodent, peeped around the
door at me. found my voice.
Mice! I yelled.
Half asleep, but easily alarmed, the
timid one at my side gave scream of
mortal fear, and as if shot from cannon,
one leap landed her in the middle of the
bed across the room where chorus of
groans and yells greeted her arrival.
This place is alive with mice!' I
megaphoned across to them.
Rodents, my dear corrected the
cautious one. Swim over. This is
the only safe spot
Trembling as though with ague I
made ready for the leap.
Bring that bunch of bricks, and the
stove poker from the Kitchen ordered
one.
Maybe if we fed the mice some nice
bread they wouldn't gnaw our ears
suggested the timid one.
Bring loaf along" ordered an
other.
with my toes curling up under me
from the horrid slivery floor and my
heart pounding to suffocation executed
these commands, and weak with relief at
last found refuge on the moated bed.
''Then began the time of our lives.
eve sprinkled a generous quantity
of crumbs on the floor, and then sat
in row along the edge Of the bed, each
girl armed with mighty brick await
ing the approach of the enemy.
''And one by one, in twos and threes,
and in small detachments, they came
sneaking in from all corners and crannies
of the room until our fort was completely
surrounded.
" Like troop of German invaders
said the one of English descent.
6 Like a bunch of underdone Bri-
fish sneered another, whose grand
father had come over.'
6 Reminds me Of Russian Cos
Sacks sneered a third.
ITO avert mutiny aboard I reached
over to the wall few feet from the
bed and captured a tiny American
flag which draped a Fourth of July
picture and stuck it in a convenient
crack in the bed post.
This is an American ship an
nounced, pointing to the Stars and
Stripes, and we are banded
together to defeat the common foe!'
''The girls greeted this eloquent
speech by laying down their bricks
for a moment and indulging in tumul-
tous applause.
Thereafter we devoted ourselves
to throwing things. Mice came from
everywhere, eager little bodies, staring
and alert for chance to get one Of the
tempting crumbs on the floor, but
our hearts were as stone, and we
aimed our bricks with deadly dexter
ity. Until a. m. we worked our muir
derous will upon the dauntless enemy,
and then truce was called and the last
living mouse faded away in to the shad-
ows. Did we kill any? Well, / should
say so! Seventeen dead ones lay pros
trate on the floor, a fitting tribute to
our prowess. Sleep was no longer
possible so we sat huddled up on the
bed and discussed the meanness of
landlord who would charge So per day
for mousey cottage, and finally the
morning bells began to ring. Strange
to say we all felt fine the next day, but
nothing could persuade me to pass
another night in that placer
Gee! That must have been fun!'
gasped one of the audience, who had
listened breathlessly to the dread tale.
I'm going right out and rent
that cottage! Which one was it?''
Verify no one can truly learn, except
by bitter experience. -Mankato Free
Press.
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