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