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How many Mousetraps Allday sent to market is uncertain, as but one or two copies only are known to be in existence, and equally uncertain is it whether the speculation was a paying one.

From Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically by Harman, Thomas T.

Mousetraps had to be invented some time or other.'

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm