The boy drew the cage towards him and placed his thin white hands over it.
“Have you come for them?” he asked, with a sob in his throat.
“Let me show you what they will do!” said Sonny Boy, and sat down opposite him at the table.
Those mice had been trained before Sonny Boy had them, and for two years he and Tom and Trixie had been teaching them. When either of the young Plummers had the mumps or the measles, or there was a long storm, it meant several new tricks for the white mice! and they could now do really wonderful things.
“‘LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT THEY WILL DO.’”
Since the war with Spain had begun, they were taught soldier tricks altogether. And it was so fortunate that some had black spots, for those could be Spaniards!
All the children in the ward who could walk crowded around the table, and the matron and the nurses, too.