On the cover the young rapscallion, his pert wooden nose upturned, falls in with the sleekit lame fox and blind cat. I thumb through searching for my favourites: parrucca (wig), falegname ...
Traps in the kitchen go off every fifteen minutes; sometimes the dead mouse will have its head chewed off by other mice. ‘Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous’? Au contraire. It’s a murine horror show. A ...