MICE AS WOMEN’S PETS.
Even in these days few women would care to take a mouse by its tail and hold it close to their eyes the better to examine the sheen of its fur, but this is what several women did at the Leeds and District Fanciers’ Show, where women outnumbered men as exhibitors of mice. “They make quite interesting pets, and, of course, you get used to them,” one woman exhibitoi said, as she allowed a bright-eyed mouse tc run about in the palm of hei hand. Mr G. Fullbrook, the judge of the mouse section, stated that many of the mice exhibited there that day had changed hands for 30/- and £2, and some fetched as much as
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 7
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121MICE AS WOMEN’S PETS. Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 7
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