Article: In the game of cat and mouse, it's just an everyday endeavor.(After chores)

One airless summer evening as I was nodding out in the old stuffed chair, a movement caught my eye; out on the kitchen floor, way over in the corner. He startled me at first--only for a second--but enough to make my heart beat twice instead of once. It's that strange feeling everyone gets when they see a mouse (especially women and elephants). There I sat, eye-to-eye with the critter who gnawed into my Wheaties last week. The same varmint that used my sugar bowl for an outhouse the week before that. Well, this little fur-ball with beady eyes was really pressing his luck.

Sitting there on his haunches as if he owned the place, bold as could be, he didn't give a ...

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