THE BUSY MOUSE
89 JOURNEYS TO A BOOP. When a certain father of a family went to the hearth at his home the other day to put on lis boots, lett therg overnight to warm, he found one of them half full of peas. Hit, of course, coucluded that one of his children had put them there, but all denied any knowledge of them, Then the culprit was discovered. In | the corner of the room was a wooden box in which the seeds for the garden had been placed, and during tlie day a niutlse was seen to run to the corner. Iuvestigation showed that it had snawed a hole through the wood and threngh a paper bag containing peas, and it must have carried the peas one by one to the boots. There were 89 peas in one hoot, so the mouse must have made that number of journeys. > But why? We wutiuot say, but the penalty of its theft was death.
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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 26, 13 January 1928, Page 15
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163THE BUSY MOUSE Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 26, 13 January 1928, Page 15
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