Show A for a companion one of the quaint remembrances of robert louis Steven sons south sea life is that of his honolulu mouse A small shelf hung over the couch he used to lie when ill and trying to forget his pain in tooting on his flageolet out on this shelf the little mouse would venture and soon became so tame as to delight in the novelists caresses if it got no im-mediate attention it would scratch on the shelf and make a little chino or song to attract its friend and after a time it actually persuaded its spouse to pay a daily visit to the musician io iti company |