MOUSE PRICED AT £SO
A boy undid the catch of a tiny cage and fished out a beautiful little silvergrey mouse by the tail, spread the wee beastie over his cuff and looked up with pride. “Fifty pounds,”'he said. The animal was one of a pair of silver-greys exhibited at the annual show at St. Albans, of the London and Southern Counties’ Mouse and Rat Club. Four hundred mice and a small colony of rats had spruced themselves up for the occasion. Cats were strictly refused admission. Anybody who looked the least like a pied piper was shooed off the doorstep. A crowd of mice fanciers, male ami female, discussed ears and tails and spots, fur and feet. The best mouse in the show won a largo shining cup. ♦
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Evening Star, Issue 20943, 6 November 1931, Page 13
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129MOUSE PRICED AT £50 Evening Star, Issue 20943, 6 November 1931, Page 13
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