Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     There is a cage containing four white mice at the Delta saloon, Virginia, which are quite a study. After seeing their maneuvers for an hour or two, one is not, at all surprised at the racket made by mice generally, for during the early part of the evening they take constant and violent exercise. They consume a great deal of water, taking a drink every ten minutes or oftener. It would be supposed that such a small animal as a mouse would not be at all ferocious and aggressive; but such appears to be the case with the white species at least. A chipmunk that was put into the cage with those at the Delta was attacked by them all and very quickly dispatched, without one of the mice being injured in the least by the unfortunate victim. A gray mouse, which was subsequently put into the same cage, was very roughly handled, being attacked by two of the white mice, who took hold of him like a couple of bull-dogs and repeated the attack again and again, shaking him by the throat and biting his legs and tail, the latter being nearly severed from his body. Perhaps white mice like red ants are a particularly ferocious species of the genus to which they belong.