Singing Mice

Abstract

WHEN at school a friend and I used to keep tame mice, and amongst our large stock was one of the so-called singing mice. The mouse in question was not one we bred ourselves, but was bought from a London dealer, so we had no opportunities of knowing whether it had ever been kept near a singing bird or not; but it was not at all averse to performing in broad daylight, and would chirp whilst a knot of boys were standing round it as freely as when the cupboard was closed.