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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 9

“When the Cat’s Away.” “When the cat’s away the mice will play” is a truism which was illustrated on a recent morning by a mouse which exercised itself in an Auckland city stationer’s window before the doors of the shop were opened for business. He was an inquisitive little fellow, and roamed at his leisure amongst literature of all descriptions. People stopped and gazed at him, but he semed to sense the security of the existence of a plate-glass window between himself and his spectators. Indeed, he appeared to revel in having an audience, and periodically interrupted ins perambulations to dampen a paw a.id rub it over his face. The mouse was | apparently in search of tit-bits, out i finally discovering nothing but a - Webster's dictionary and a collection | of fiction to nibble at, he leisurely j left the shop window and disappeared ' under a row of book-shelves in the I

shop proper. On other mornings a cat has been seen in this same shop window, but, needless to say, there was no sign of “pussy” on this occasion.