Deer-Mouse

a handsome, delicate wild mouse. It is also called the white-footed mouse. It has rounded ears, wide, innocent eyes, fawn-colored sides, a daintily marked back, and white under parts. It is about seven inches long, half tail. It moves about at night and is active all winter. In the summer time, it collects nuts and seeds, stowing them away in hollow trees, and under stones and logs, or in pockets in the turf. A pair of small pouches, chipmunklike, are used to carry supplies. The deermouse is fond of honey. When pursued the deer-mouse endeavors to escape by long jumps, not equal, of course, to those of the jumping mouse. While apt to be a nuisance in camp from a habit of pilfering food, the deer-mouse is a companionable little fellow, quite free from the vicious habits of the European house mouse. See Mouse