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A catch-'em-alive trap and a tub of water is the most merciful death, I fancy; but I am rather in favour of letting one animal kill another. It seems more natural, and fairer. They have a run for their lives, so to speak." "And who did you get to kill your mouse?" "Well, I know a youngster who has a terrier. They are a perfect pair.
I don't like leaving necessary executions to servants. As to mice, you know poisoning is out of the question, on sanitary grounds. 'Catch-'em-alive' traps are like a policeman who catches a pickpocket all the trouble of the prosecution is to come; and as to the traps with springs and spikes my man set one in my bedroom once, and in the middle of the night the mouse was caught.
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