High Security Prisoner Escapes

HIGH SECURITY PRISONER ESCAPES!Mood: incredulousNow Playing: JailerTopic: Chinese Mouse
HARVEY, THE CHINESE SWINE, made a jailbreak last night. The hour was 5am GMT — his nightly ramble time — when the swine made his jailbreak — rushing my sleeve to freedom. & gaah! — no sign of the rodent.
Ten minutes passes. I have not to be frantic because this will frighten him off.
Then his vole-like face emerges by a can of lighter gas under my bed. On first glimpse, believing he is tame, I lunge at him and he pings away. He's so depressingly quick and agile I am despairing.
Now I know what that dark "dorsal stripe" is for. It is a chipmunk-style go-faster stripe. And it works.
And now I've frightened him, he's vanished well and truly. No sign of the escapee at all. I go out and get a cyder to calm my nerves.
Off goes the normal light, on with fireglow bulbs. His fishtank is sideways on the floor, tempting him with food and water and his own bed.
And suddenly, poppy-eyed and chipmunk-nimble, the swine reappears.
The smell of his own bed is too much to resist & bang — I caught him.
Ears down and pentinent He ckulks back to his nest, cussing to himself , "Drat — back to a life-sentance of four glass walls and a diet of glorified muesli."
Posted by gledwood at 6:40 PM GMT
Updated: Sunday, 3 December 2006 7:06 PM GMT