Cities can be dangerous places for a mouse. There are hazards everywhere. As Dr Johnson noted in his poem London:
‘Here malice, rapine, accident conspire
Now a rabble rages, now a fire.’
To these ever-present threats, we could add the new motorised menaces that prowl the streets. In this mouse’s words:
Now kamikaze drivers cause mouse to burrow-creep
And juggernauts unfeeling disrupt his precious sleep.
Conscious of the dangers of speed
