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Build a Better Mousetrap
There’s only one solution to a mouse that’s a louse and on the loose.
Okay, maybe two solutions. You could get a cat – which they couldn’t – for no cats followed the tune the piper piped. Do you think that’s because cats are tone-deaf, or just too independent to do what someone wants – like follow, when they are supposed to?
Fiddle!
Actually, the pipe could count as another solution, because you could pipe them out, if you had a magic pipe, but they didn’t. So piping was out, too.
So, the only solution to a mouse on the loose (at this particular moment, and to these particular people) was to set a trap.
And that was Clara’s idea. Franz immediately knew what she was thinking – Rube Goldberg! This had been one of
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