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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1914, Page 2

Two-up lias lost its popularity a'. Moutoa ilaxmill. Mouse-' catching competitions have supplanted the game of tosspenny. Mice at the mill in reference were as plentiful as tow, and one day last month the engineer came to Levin and bought a dozen " Vcfo" mousetraps. They are the kind that hit a mouse on the hack of"--the neck before lie can rqucak an alarm. The highest, rpcord made was thirty-five jnice in twenty minutes! The mice got scarce at. the end of a few weeks, and tliis week the "fiaxies"' are setting the traps for sparrows—and catching them too!