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hair on them but their eyes were still
closed. We caught the female mice and
put them in a tin can with the nest and
young. When I got home I put them in
a wooden cracker box with plenty of cotton
and food. I put a screen over the top and
piled four sticks of stove wood on top of it.
The next morning the screen was off and
the meadow mice had gone taking their
young with them.
The harvest mice behaved better
but killed and ate two of their number
although they were fat and had plenty to eat.
I am inclined to think that their
shrews prey on the harvest mice at times.