Those burrow-haunting, speckled fluffs of greediness begin a twilight flitting toward the spring, feeding as they go on grasshoppers, lizards, and small, swift creatures, diving into burrows to catch field mice asleep, battling with chipmunks at their own doors, and getting down in great numbers toward the lone juniper.

Until this row about Browse has blown over, every one'll be watching us like cats watching a mouse.

He did, and we went in,in through the vestibule, where I first had seen this man, tolling the bell for his mother's death,up the aisle, where I had gone the day I saw the thirsty, hungry, little mouse.

Believe me now, I never killed a mouse, nor hurt a fly.

the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse; parturiunt montes [Lat.];

The cats purred; he picked up one, molded her carefully in his handsome hands; and presently, under the agreeable massage, her purring increased while she dwindled and dwindled to the size of a small, fluffy kitten, then vanished entirely, leaving in his hand a tiny white mouse.

They laughed at us and said we had dreamt it, or that we had heard a mouse, and became so offensive in their unbelief that G. and I rose from the table in a dignified way, and went out to walk in the compound.

"If I ate that thankful little mouse, how thankful he should be, When he has made a meal himself, to make a meal for me!

The stamp of Hollis' boots and the sound of his laughter had frightened the mouse back into its hiding-place in the chimney; Marjorie would not have frightened the mouse all day long.

"Why, I like candy mice," said Peter grinning, "but I never knew before that cats did!" "Sh-sh!"

Anxious, bless you; I love him like a cat loves a mouse.

From grasshoppers the cubs took to hunting the wood-mice that nested in the dry moss and swarmed on the edges of every thicket.

And if there's trouble"she smiled upon her frantic father"if there is trouble I will follow you about the country exhibiting green mice" "What!" thundered her father.

Tugboat Annie smells a mouse.

The cop he took the gold mouse out of my pocket, and says he, 'I know this fellow, and if I'm not mistook, they'll be more charges than yourn made ag'in him.'

NICHOLAS 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

Then he showed the mouse how he wanted the coat to be sewed.

Would ye contempt and scorn avoid, Let your vain-glory be destroyed: Humble your arrogance of thought, Pursue the ways by Nature taught; So shall you find delicious fare, And grateful farmers praise your care: So shall sleek mice your chase reward, And no keen cat find more regard.' 40 * *

Jack betrayed not the least sign of excitement, and insisted on going down into the grub-room to feed two white mice before setting out for the "front."

" It was then and only then that Rudolf and Ann remembered the two white mice!

Sam lay still mouse while the lodger tip-toed out o' the room with 'is boots in his 'and, and then, springing up, follered him downstairs.

He recalled that he used to chase and trap mice with all a boy's savage ingenuity.

It fits the dear little mouse like a glove, and terminates in a collar which is an instrument of torture to a person whose patience has not been developed from year to year by similar trials.

A few days later I got another mouse, to which he began to do obeisance as before, but very soon and suddenly, though as softly as falling snow, he plumped upon it with both feet and, spreading his wings on the ground, looked all round him with infinite satisfaction.

And God showed many vengeances to them of the country as long as the ark was with them, for God smote them with sickness, and wells boiled in towns and fields of that region, and there grew among them so many mice, that they suffered great persecution and confusion in that city.