20 



HAEVEST-MOTTSE. 



teen inches deep. This is the measurement at the 

 bottom of the hole ; but at the top the hole was 

 only eighteen inches long and nine wide, so that 

 when mice fell into it, they were unable to escape. 



In these holes upwards of forty thousand mice 

 were taken in less than three months, irrespective of 

 those that were removed from the holes by the stoats, 

 weasels, crows, magpies, owls, and other creatures. 



Like most of the mouse family, the field-mouse is 

 easily tamed ; and I have seen one that would come 



HARVEST-MOUSE. 



to the side of its cage, and take a grain of corn from 

 its owner's fingers. 



There is another kind of mouse which may be 

 found in the autumn, together with its most curious 

 nest. This is the Harvest-mouse, the tiniest of 

 British quadrupeds, two harvest-mice being hardly 

 equal in weight to a halfpenny. 



