Show One Brave Mouse Put Up Good Battle With Two Big Cats and Almost Won A stray gray mouse fought two large cats to a draw Six men a 8 woman and a child chUd will swear to it asserts a II Dowagiac Mich corre corre- correspondent correspondent in the Detroit Free Press The battle they said lasted three hours and then the contestants had bad to Co be separated The mouse wind wind- winded winded winded ed ed and sorely bruised was dis dis- dispatched dispatched patched with a coup de grace The cats one weighing 15 pounds and I the other seven were taken home to nurse badly bitten muzzles Pat the larger cat had cornered the mouse who is unidentified and end was toying with It as any supercilious ious lous cat would But the mouse who was not the kind sneered at atin atin atIn in the question Are we mite mice or ormen ormen ormen men didn't play according to the rules When the cat cuffed him the mouse reared on its Us its hind legs bared its fangs squeaked defiantly and and eight eight persons swore td to t it- it charged poll pelt mellInto mell Into threats threat's th whiskers if t I Each time the ca uJ e ed him back but not te u ad scratched or or bitten the bt on an the nose Bewildered Bewilder d s 1 H and and- spitting Pat sparred with the mouse alone for 30 minutes Then the marines in the shape of Blackie landed on the mouse from the north while Pat harassed him from the south The cats batted the th mouse be be- between between tween them but with the agility of ofa a Tunney he held the cuffing to a am m minimum by nipping two aston astonished astonished noses After three hours with with- without without out a rest period the mouse still valiant met a 8 heros hero's death under undera a club wielded by b a spectator |