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From Pewsey to Didcot by Mouse-Hearse<\/strong><\/p>\n Get yourself a free-rolling hearse; Breed your mice from the best stock; It is your job to apply the brakes quickly, At the end of each day, attend to the needs <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Simon Williams<\/strong> has five published collections, the latest being A Place Where Odd Animals Stand<\/em> (Oversteps Books, 2012) and He|She<\/em> (Itinerant Press, 2013). He was elected The Bard of Exeter in 2013 and founded the large-format magazine, The Broadsheet<\/em> (www.thebroadsheet.moonfruit.com<\/a>). He makes a living as a journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Pewsey to Didcot by Mouse-Hearse Get yourself a free-rolling hearse; a Daimler or a big Ford. You won\u2019t require speed, a good walking pace will do. You\u2019ll need a bedroll and a sleeping bag for night, something to insulate against the metal of the runners, but space won\u2019t be a problem, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11380,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions\/11380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na Daimler or a big Ford. You won\u2019t require speed,
\na good walking pace will do.
\nYou\u2019ll need a bedroll and a sleeping bag for night,
\nsomething to insulate against the metal of the runners,
\nbut space won\u2019t be a problem, you can lie out full length.<\/p>\n
\nweak, white lab specimens aren\u2019t born to dray work.
\nYou\u2019ll save the cost of peaked caps for their pink eyes.
\nGive them motivation through inspirational talks,
\nremember chocolate is more attractive than cheese.
\nAllow five hours to harness them each morning.<\/p>\n
\nshould a cat or other predator break cover
\nand scatter your team. Many previous expeditions
\nhave been cut short by losing stock
\nto the wheels of vehicles or early sledges.
\nMice do not respond to whip-cracks.<\/p>\n
\nof your mice before your own. Feed and water them.
\nMake sure they have plenty of fluff for nesting.
\nThe route is mainly flat; there are no major hills
\n(don\u2019t contemplate the Hexham expedition).
\nGive your mice recuperation time. Avoid Newbury.<\/p>\n