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young cabbage leaves ; but the two latter certainly make them 

 smell very objectionable. 



The popular idea of bread-and-milk as suitable for a mouse 

 is generally a mistake. The bread is first put to soak in hot 

 water, and then the water having been more or less — generally 

 less — pressed out, a little cold milk is added, and a watery 

 slop is the result. A much better food in every way is made 

 by steeping the bread in as much raw or boiling milk as it 

 will take up, and letting the mice have it in a fairly solid form. 

 Unless the greatest cleanliness is observed, and the food-tins 



Fig. 8. Mr. Scarisbrook's Evenly-marked Doe, Front View. 



are constantly scalded, the raw milk and bread will turn sour 

 very rapidly, and scour the mice ; boiled milk is much safer, 

 though more troublesome to prepare. I do not care for tins 

 as food vessels ; the little penny round bird- glasses are much 

 more convenient and easier to keep sweet. Never throw food 

 upon the floor of the cage. 



Mice are to some extent carnivorous, and will greedily eat 

 mealworms, and, indeed, almost all kinds of insects ; they also 

 seem to consider ants' eggs a treat. I do not think it well to 

 give more than a very scanty allowance of animal food, however, 

 as I find it does not improve their condition. 



