Mighty Mouse

Extract from Student Association Newsheet March 19:

Wanted to buy: One old aquarium or glass tank suitable for a white mouse. Contact Mrs. Bunt, Studass Office.

Mrs. Bunt, presumably, aims to teach her white mouse to swim. If this is so, we would like to wish her luck in this most difficult and exacting job, for not everyone has the initiative and spirit of endeavour to persevere with such a task.

Salient's science reporter says that Mrs. Bunt's activities will be of immense benefit to the scientific world, and could provide valuable information on animal behaviour. He draws attention, however, to the Harvard Law of Animal Behaviour, which states:

"Under carefully controlled conditions, organisms behave as they damn well please."

This may be so, in which case Mrs. Bunt's mouse could well sink.