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Letters to Mice were written by old-time gardeners who believed that mice, rats, moles or groundhogs could be pursuaded to leave a garden if they were sent letters with a polite invitation to vacate the premises. Greek farmers cleared gardens of mice by politicly offering them alternative accommodations elsewhere. “Elsewhere" was often the house or garden of a neighbor. Before sunrise the well-greased letter was stuck upon an unhewn stone where the mice could read it before eating it.
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