Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1883 — Squashing a Mouse. [ARTICLE]

Squashing a Mouse.

Mrs. Jamieson is a Brooklyn lady, and she had a very sore finger, caused by striking the wrong nail while laying carpets. She had procured the finger of an old kid glove and used it for a finger-stall. Thereby hangs a tale. While cleaning house the other day she disturbed a mouse and it ran into one of the bureau drawers which was laying on the-floor. Mrs. Jamieson is not a timid woman by any means, but, woman-like, she called for her husband. He was shaving himself and he came in with his face covered with lather. “ ’Smatter?” he asked, with his mouth full of soap. “There’s a mouse in that drawer and I want you to help me kill it,” she answered. Mr. Jamieson isn’t at all fond of mice and he’d rather go without them than pay an exorbitant rate for them, but he didn’t want to appear afraid, so he went out into the kitchen and procured little Tommy’s base-ball bat. He climbed up on top of the bureau, and told Mrs. J. to “fetch on her mice. ” “I’ll lift the clothes out,” she said, and when the mouse jumps you squash him.” She grabbed the clothes out one by one, and finally Jamieson saw the mouse jump. Then he struck at it, upset the bureau and went through the lookingglass, while Mrs. J. went into the kitchen to howl. They don’t commune at the same table now, for what Jamieson mistook for the mouse was the finger-stall on Mrs. J.’s finger.— New York World.