by Nikolai Kotov
found in Oryol, in 1998



MOUSETRAP FOR TWO

dimensions: 15x15x8 cm
weight: 0.25 kg
— This is a mousetrap with two spots. For two mice. Let's say you rarely get to your dacha or something. An ordinary mousetrap kills one mouse and that's all, but this one gets a couple. How does it work? Well, your usual mousetrap comes down from above onto the mouse but this one comes from below. I'll show you. Here's a bit of bread. I'll just load it on. The mouse crawls, crawls in, pulls at it, and then... The second one is exactly the same. Even though the mouse can see the first one in there, it still goes for it – they're that stupid. And just this winter I caught a rat in here. Everyone was amazed – but a fact's a fact. It stuck its nose in here and this ring came up under its nose. It looks like it struggled for a long time but couldn't get free. It's a necessary thing around the house (...) I had to make them in between doing other things. I only get to the dacha about once a week, you know. It's not so pleasant to have mice running about the place. One by one you catch them. Here's the join. Here's the bend. You just bend it over here. And that's that.

Nikolai Kotov
from Oryol
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