Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1898 — THE MOUSE IN THE PIANO. [ARTICLE]

THE MOUSE IN THE PIANO.

It Itnn Ont at the Sound of Clnnaleal Mu*!e, But Not for Two-Step*. "Speaking of mice,” said Mr. Biffleby. according to the New York Sun, “a friend of mine that owns an old-fnsh-loned piano tells me that when it was being played upon the other day a mouse ran out of it and scampered around on the top nud then ran down a curtain whose folds touch the piano nt one end. The mouse has done this twice in a single day. “Search was made in the interior of the instrument for a mouse’s nest, but none was found. Perhaps the mouse had only just selected this place and had not yet begun building when it was first attracted by the sound of the strings. However that may be, it still comes back, and It comes out and runs away only wW*n classical music is played, and not for two-stops nnd thnt sort of thing. “As to the accuracy of these facts there can, of course, be no doubt. The only question in my own mind is ns to whether thV mouse’s failure to come ont when the two-steps and so on are played really Indicates n preference for the lighter forms of music, or that—-or-r—the mouse Isn’t there.”