There was no deer mouse under the mixing bowl this morning, nor did his cousins manifest and demand recompense.
My brother calls me up to let me know, as a sort of yardstick before he tells our parents, that he has acquired a mouse.
Her name is Experiment 6. She is a white lab mouse whom he saved from the short desolate life of snake food; she has a little plastic wheel on which she races like a hamster and he reports that she is ruby-eyed and affectionate. He would bring her home, except that my mother, who is allergic to every kind of fur, would stop breathing as surely as if she were a cat. So either I will have to wait until he has an apartment this summer or I should visit in the next couple of weeks before I can meet her. It's a little sad; it's rather sweet; I tell him to send photographs.
Apollo Smintheus laughs and eats my pear cake.
My brother calls me up to let me know, as a sort of yardstick before he tells our parents, that he has acquired a mouse.
Her name is Experiment 6. She is a white lab mouse whom he saved from the short desolate life of snake food; she has a little plastic wheel on which she races like a hamster and he reports that she is ruby-eyed and affectionate. He would bring her home, except that my mother, who is allergic to every kind of fur, would stop breathing as surely as if she were a cat. So either I will have to wait until he has an apartment this summer or I should visit in the next couple of weeks before I can meet her. It's a little sad; it's rather sweet; I tell him to send photographs.
Apollo Smintheus laughs and eats my pear cake.
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