Visual impairment men in the dark) touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk. They then compare notes and learn that they are in complete disagreement. "Three Blind Mice" is a medieval English nursery rhyme about three blind mice whose tails are cut off after chasing the farmer's wife. The work is explicitly incongruous, ending with the comment "Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three blind mice?" Poet John Milton, who went blind in mid-life, composed On His Blindness,
Three Blind Mice (radio play and short story) the 1950 collection "Three Blind Mice and Other Stories". Christie saw the potential of expanding the half-hour radio play into a full theatre play and in 1952, "The Mousetrap", the play that has the longest initial run of any play in the world, first came to the stage. As another play had run on the stage just prior to the Second World War also with the title "Three Blind Mice", Christie had to change the name. It was her son-in-law, Anthony Hicks, who suggested "The Mousetrap", which is taken from Act III, Scene II of Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Allan McClelland, in