MICE AS WOMEN’S PETS
Even in these days few women would like 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 got used to them,” one woman exhibitor said, as she allowed a bright-eyed mouse to run about in the palm of her hand. Mr. G. Fullbrook, the judge of the mouse section, stated that many of the mice exhibited there that day had exchanged bands for 30/- and £2, and some fetched as much as £7.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3626, 16 June 1927, Page 4
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