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A few weeks ago American Agriculturist 
started to tell th& story of Ben, the famous 
mouse catcher, belonging to Mrs. Ida A. Brown 
whose stories of animals have interested all 
our readers. You will remember that wc lelt 
Ben sitting on a barrel full of mice trying to 
hold about six which he had covered at his 
first jump. 
T hen we looked at that darling cat. 
He sat perfectly rigid, not daring to 
stir for fear of losing one ,of these 
mice. His eyes, which were very large 
anyhow-, simply bulged right out of 
his" head. We laughed as hard as we 
could, but we helped him by taking the 
mice out one at a time from under each 
foot and killing them. As we took 
them he began to look relieved, and 
when he had just the one in his mouth 
left he soon finished him. Such a lot 
of mice as there were all over the sides 
of that box! It was enough to make 
any ambitious cat frantic, especially to 
see so many getting away. 
Ben Harrison loved music and when 
my sister played and sang he would 
hurry on a trot, climb into her lap, put 
a front paw on each of her shoulders 
and look up into her_ face, with the 
most angelic look on his face you ever 
saw. He was always completely 
charmed with the music. Now _ Ben 
could do several tricks. He could jump 
over your clasped hands held quite 
high. He would shake hands and roll 
over, and at meal times, just as we 
would start eating, all at once in would 
run Ben. Then he would chase his tail 
round and round until he would be so 
dizzy that he would stagger around 
with his big eyes bulging out. When 
some of us would say, “Oh, see Ben! 
Isn’t he cute!” he would stop and purr, 
as pleased as could be. 
Well, we moved from there one day, 
and Ben never seemed to like fhe new 
place. He often went back where we 
had lived and once had quite an ad¬ 
venture. 
The Wrong Cow in the Stable 
In our old barn was a ladder which 
went straight up the side into the hay¬ 
loft. It had flat rungs, instead of the 
usual round ones. At the foot of that 
ladder were the stables and stanchions 
for the cows, and just in the first 
stanchion on the right always stood a 
large gentle red Durham cow. This 
cow and Ben were great friends. Ben 
would come down the ladder back¬ 
wards, very carefully. The rungs were 
quite close together and he came down 
easily. When he was almost down, he 
would turn and jump in Red’s feed box, 
and from there onto her back. She 
never seemed to mind him a particle, 
but ate serenely on. He would sit 
there and wash his face, then jump 
down by the side of the man who was 
milking her and he would milk a little 
stream slowly into Ben’s wide-open 
mouth. He would soon get enough and 
step away and wash up. 
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Now comes the most exciting part of 
my story. The people who -moved there 
after we left had just such a looking 
cow as we had, and she was just put 
in that stanchion as luck would have 
it, and, of course, she did not know 
of Ben Harrison or of his habits either. 
Well, one morning Mr. Lane was milk¬ 
ing and had a pail nearly full. Ben 
Hari'ison came down that ladder as 
usual, jumped into the feedbox and on 
that cow’s back. When whiz, bang! 
away went Mr. Lane’s pail of milk, 
and the cat, too. When things calmed 
down a little Mr. Lane got to his feet 
and picked up a perfectly demoralized 
milk pail. He looked around and there 
sat Ben soaked in warm milk, and 
pawing out his eyes with first one paw 
and then the other. 
Mr. Lane sat down and laughed until 
the tears came. He took it like a sport 
and never held any grudge against 
Ben. When he told us about it the 
next day, we explained why Ben did 
such mischief. But they said that 
when Ben came back to visit he never 
came near that cow again. He had 
learned from experience, which humans 
do not always do! 
FOREIGN BODIES IN THE FLESH 
ALICE M. SMITH, M. D. 
Before attempting to remove a foreign 
body from the flesh, cleanse the part 
with some good disinfecting solution, 
as soap well diluted with water, and 
boiled until sterile. If this is imprac¬ 
tical, the wound may be thoroughly 
cleansed after the substance is re¬ 
moved. A good treatment is to apply 
tincture of iodine, or a strong solution 
of baking soda made with boiling 
water, cooled, and the injured part 
soaked in it while as hot as can be 
borne, and afterwards wrapped up in 
dressing made of clean gauze, or absor¬ 
bent cotton. Then bandage carefully. 
The painting of the wound with iodine 
for a small puncture is the simplest 
method of treatment. 
For home treatment, a penknife, 
needle or other sharp-pointed instru¬ 
ment may be cleansed by passing back 
and forth through a lamp or candle, or 
match-flame, until danger from infection 
from their use is eliminated, and then 
used to remove the foreign body. The 
needle makes a very! good probe when the 
object has penetrated deeply into the 
skin or below it. Introduce the point 
into the opening and gently move it 
about until it clicks against the foreign 
body. Its location thus determined, it 
becomes easy to remove the offending 
object without unnecessary injury to 
the tissues. 
Another method of extracting a 
thorn, needle or splinter from the flesh 
is to apply steam. This is done by 
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with hot water, then pressing the in¬ 
jured part down over the mouth of the 
bottle, holding it there for a few min¬ 
utes. The steam should loosen the for¬ 
eign body and bring it to the surface, 
after which it may be easily extricated. 
Should this method fail, the wound 
should be incised to the extent of thor¬ 
oughly exposing the foreign body and 
every fragment removed. This is 
preferably the work of a physician, 
and it naturally follows that such a 
wound should have sterile dressing to 
protect it from becoming infected. 
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