Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-25
Its a mouse!"

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 Frantically she shook her sleeping husband, who spang up with the way erlng roar of the suddenly wakened, "Wh-what is it?'
 "Hush!" commanded his wife. ,,Iou'n h9ss Il ,s scare it away! it's mouse
 For the love of Mike!" he mutter- ed disgustedly. T thought it was 8 burglar or two! Well, if it is mouse. don't want it scared away? I don't hear any moHse!"
 That's because you're making such a racket Galking!" she said tartly. Of course I don't want it scared-I want to catch iti'
 There is no trap nearer than mile and half down in the basement" pro tested her husband. "Go to sleep!"
 And have a mouse running across my face?" she shrieked.
 Tt can't be a mouse" he protested, now thoroughly awake. Because this house was recommended as burglar and mouse proof by the agent. Any sensible mouse would know 1t was wasting time up here. anyhow unless it yearns to dine on silver button hooks and clothes brushes!"
 Its after the birdseed!" insisted his wife. "The bird hangs right in that on the floor! If I wasn't so afraid of 'em I'd say it showed wonderful in- tellig -aah!"
 Describing double arc she shot out onto the floor and whirled around madly.
 Appalled,, her husband sat up and stared at her after snapping on the light.
 Tt b-b-bit mel" she walled. q felt it run right across my foot
 In half bound he joined her. Cau- tiously he threw back the covers dis closing no mouse. He laughed with suspicious uproariousness. Your imagination!" he taunted.
 You were just as scared as I was!" very easily crawl up the side of the bed. If you don't catch that mouse I'll die, Ferdinand!"
 Muttering things about a woman's nerves he shrugged into bathrobe and slippers and made the tour to the trap.
 '1There!" he gasped, arriving up stairs. Now go to bed, for heavens S sake, and go to sleep-for here's the trap! There isn't any mouse, but got it to humor you! I haven't heard the slightest sound of a mouse!"
 There was, too. a mouse!" she in- sisted with her last breath before fall ing asleep.
 She shook him violently in the morning to waken him, indignantly waving in his face the mouse trap he had brought up a few hours before Cheat" she stormed. You put the trap down. but you didn't bait it! And might have had mice running all over my bed, thanks to you-and I slept right through it!"
 Then what's the difference he yawned "GeeI One would think Q mouse was a maneating tiger the way you act! Besides, I didn't hear any mouse"
 That mouse Is going to be caught tonight!" she insisted fifteen hours later. Here is the cheese. Now you fix that trap and fix it right! Yor promised to protect me when you mar ried me, and I'd like to see you dc it!"
 T tell you there wasn't any mouse!' he muttered as he set the trap. This humoring a woman has its limits! YoJ get an idea in your head and no power on earth-o-oIl, Gordyi" He had walked into the forgotter trap and it went off with a bang like gun. Slightly pale he recovered il and adjusted it. This is nonsense!' he said shortly.
 "See!" she cried the next morning "I lay awake most of the night and was sure I heard it-and it's eaten al the cheese, but didn't get caught Which Dr0upS that there is mouse