Of mice and foxes

[anteros_lmc]

Earlier this week eglantine_br asked me the following question in an e-mail...

Btw--a mouse is something on a ship right? I seem to remember Captain Aubrey complaining about his mouse--and I can hear him and Mr Bush in my head now, snickering.

I confess I had no idea if a mouse was a thing, so I looked it up in my copy of Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine

Comments

[vespican]

In "The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships", C. Nepean Longridge goes into a great bit of detail, explaining the lower masts' stays and the use of a "mouse." He in fact, details just how such a thing is made.
Dave

[eglantine_br]

I may have a mouse related crack-fic in the hopper. It is a total piece of self-indulgance but it just won't shut up!

[rosiespark]

There are also cats and fish, as I seem to have learnt from Patrick O'Brian!

[shepet]

Great! Now no one can say that Mr. Bush does not mouse ;-))