Colour cartoon tattoo of a mouse sitting in a blue drink cup with a yellow straw and a bitten cookie, on a forearm.

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Mouse in a cup with a straw

Forearm · Colour · Photo

A cartoon mouse sits inside a blue drinks cup with a yellow straw, with a pink cookie showing bite marks at the base of the design. The linework is dark and clean, with soft pastel shading in blue, yellow and pink on the cup, mouse and cookie. The cup fills the length of the forearm and the mouse sits near the centre, while the photo shows a light sink basin behind the arm.

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The cup was still half full of blackcurrant squash when Mrs Halloran came down to the kitchen and found the mouse sitting in it, sucking the yellow straw like a man at the end of a long shift. He had his paws folded on his stomach. Beside the cup, the pink iced biscuit she had been saving for the church fête lay with three neat bites out of its edge, each one the size of a thumbprint.

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Mrs Halloran was not a woman who shouted at mice. She had buried two husbands and a tabby cat and felt she had earned the right to be cross only at people who deserved it. She tapped the rim of the cup with a wooden spoon. The mouse opened one eye, considered her, and went back to his drink, which was the most insolent thing anyone had done in that kitchen since the Christmas the goose got loose.

So she made a bargain. "You may have the squash," she said, "if you go out to the hedge and fetch me the blue bottle that fell behind the rhubarb." The mouse climbed out, dripping, and was gone so long she began to think he had kept it. Then the back door creaked, and he was on the step with the glass bottle clamped in his teeth and a crumb of biscuit stuck to one whisker.

She laughed until she had to sit down. The cup went back on the windowsill, and from then on the mouse drank there every morning, straw bent over the sill towards the sun, while the biscuit went to the fête with one bite missing and nobody thought to ask why.

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