While the head balances quite securely on the point, you can make it wag from side to side, make it shake and tremble when the professor grows very earnest in his discourse, and make the chin thrust itself forward when he is emphatic. You do all this merely by shaking and tipping the paper robe. He is an amusing little lecturer, this English-walnut shell professor, and seems very much alive.
English-Walnut Shell Mouse
It is a far cry from a lecturer to a little mouse, yet one English-walnut shell will make both, half a shell for each.
Fig.144 - The Nutshell Thimble Box.
Fig.145 - Tie a ribbon around the nut.
This is a nice, cosey-looking little mouse who crouches down comfortably and does not show his legs ([Fig. 142]).