My sister tells the story of when she was a girl with her first date, sitting in the living room late one night. Suddenly they heard a rattling, resonating sound pulsing from the dark corner of the room, coming closer and closer.

She says the next thing she knew, she and her date were standing by the bedside of her parents.

It was a mouse caught in a trap which it was dragging across the air intake grate.

Ebbie