cabinet of curiosities · case no. 12
mouse with top hat, miniature ebony cane, eyes of jet, posed as though about to make a remark and reconsider. the costume is small and a hundred and twenty years old. the mouse itself is older by one mouse-lifetime.
it was made by a woman in Bath who specialised in anthropomorphica; the cabinet has nine of her pieces in storage and only this one on the floor. it stands well beside the skeleton and not at all well beside the eye.
field-note · the hat lifts off. do not lift it off.
skeleton · ledger mouse · dollhouse · ritual