L’Apprenti Souricière
Wow, a pictorial history of mousetraps. Evidently, disappointingly, it wasn’t anything like the Little Nipper that Hamlet had in mind: maybe something more like these “humane” basket type traps.
I was pleased, in my little web digression on the subject, to discover the ongoing online wikified version of Samuel Pepys’ diary, and learn that the great man himself, 346 years ago this very week, “bought two mouse traps of Thomas Pepys“.
The Pepys diary project is ongoing, with entries added on the corresponding date. You can even subscribe to the RSS feed to keep bang up-to-date with latest news 343 years ago!