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Whitby Free Press, Wednesday. September 22, 1993. Page 7. esw Eeek! This is a column about death, about man's day-to-day struggle for eistence, about flighting the forces of nature, a war story. I'il save you the suspense. It bas a happy onding. The bero wins. It ail started late one afternoen, when our hero receives a caîl from home. «on your way home,» said the voice, «pick up a couple of mouso traps. We have, ahem, visitors.» "Tell me the details.» «Erin camne in the kitchen after school and lot out a screech. A niouse was perched on the kitchen counter. He scrambled away, of course. By the turne I got there, ho was gone.» «Mouse traps,» he repeated. "Ilil get a pair.» UGet something that wen't trap the cat, too. Hall an bour ago I came back into the kitchen. Mile was on the counter, waiting te pounce.' «It's turne ho earned his keep." «We had hum declawed, remèmber? Ho likely thinks the mouso is a windup toy.» On the way homo ho stopped at the hardware store. Build a btter mouse trap and the world will beat a path te, your door. Ha. Nobody has cornered that market. Our hero picks two, one modern mouse launching pad, one iron-gripped killer. Both boast about being the truly modern trap. Once home, ho pushed bis way through, the kitchen door, tossing the traps on the kitchen counter. «Whero's the beast?» ho snarled. Ever describe the mechanism of a mouse trap te a kind-hearted eight year old? "Se with one quick snap, it .. .» They were in the kitchen after dinner wben it appeared. "Eeek!" said the eigbt-yoar-old. "A mouse!" The animal appeared under the microwavo, a tiny, timorous boast, snarling only a very small snarl. It looked yeung, frightened and lest. "l'il get my killer trap,» said the beo. «Oh, ne, ho's tee, cute. Just catch hlm and put hlm outside.» ight. An. advantago people have over mico is that people are bigger. Lots bigger. The advantage mice have ever people la that mice are smaller, And quicker. With a fly swatter and somo patience, our beoeget the mouse eut in the oen. The thing about being in the open is, mico don't like it. So they run roally fast to places that aron't eut in the open. They leap off taîl counters witb a single bound. Super mice. To catch such a creature unharmod in a drinking glass is a challenge. To the dining roin. (Wbere? Where? Under the chair!) To the china cabinet. To the chair. Across the floor. Down the stops te the TV reoin. 1 wxUi not tell you about two other occupants of the bouse who stoed on chairs doing the Eeek! thing. That is tee sexist. Our hero finally trapped the mouse in the downstairs bathroem. Zip! Clunki Darn. Thon, lapi Hey, there he is, trapped under this glass. Shivering. Cold? No, shaking. Scared? No, convulsing. The capture was net édean; the superior size of the human bad evon in being genle delivored a fatal blow. T'he mousejerked a dozen times, then Iay still. «Can you fix hlm up?» Sucb trust. A human thumb delivering beart massage te a mouse? Maybe mouth-te-mouso? "l'il bury him in the backyard.» Moutht.TT1ouse? Se our hero is a beoewbo got bis mouso. In one girl's oyos ho 15 less beo than hard-hoarted killer. But a manps otta do what a man's gotta de. I ~ INTERIOR 0F ST. JOHN'S ANGICAN CHURCH, C. 1910 St. John~s Church was built of limestoe from Kingston, brougbt te, Whitby in sailing vessels, in 1846. In 1914, a memorial window te the cburch's first minister, Rev. John Pentland, was installed over the 'T7ilI Ho Corne' sign at centre.WhtyAhvopoo 10 YEARS AGO from the Wednesday, Septembor 21, 1983 odition of the WH1TBY FREE PRESS " A bar-ebaîl diamond rnay bo built at Meadewcrest School in Breeklin next year at a cost of $13,000. " Mount Lawn Memorial Gardons bas opened a crematoriumr, the first in Durham~ Reigon. " A traffic light will ho installod at Brock Street and Manning Road. " The Town of Whitby plans te designate The Terraco on Byron Street Nerth, built in 1857, as a beritage building. 35 YEARS AGO frorn the Thursday, Soptember 18, 1958 editien of the WHITBY WEEKÇLY NEWS " Whitby Hsarbour is boing dredged this menth. " A $50,000 ire destreyed the barn on the Batty Farm, south ef Brooklin, on Sept. 16. " Films of the Whitby Dunlops European tour last spring will ho shown nt tbe bigb school auditorium on Se pt. 19. *Mr. and Mrs. William R. Bradley celebrated their 59tb wedding anniversary on Sept. 12. 80 YEARS AGO from the Thursday, September 18, 1913 edition of the WIITBY GAZEITE AND CIIRONICLE *The Town council has hired engineer T. Aird Murray to, design a sanitary sewer system for Whitby. " E.W. Evans and J.H. Nicholson are building a vault in Groveside Cemetery that will hold 36 caskets. " Mayor James E. Willis has asked the federal government to place mail boxes on WhAlitby's streets. *A very successfül flower show was held in the council chambers by the Whitby Horticultural Society.