Mouse Trap (game) shape of some pieces has been slightly modified over the years. There are several stages which form the mouse trap, and most stages are composed of multiple pieces. A 1990s ad campaign for the game involved a song which listed most of the stages of the mouse trap. In a proper operation, the player turns the crank, which rotates a vertical gear, connected to a horizontal gear. As that gear turns, it pushes an elastic-loaded lever until it snaps back in place, hitting a swinging boot. This causes the boot to kick over a bucket, sending a marble down a
A Tale of a Tub "Tale" is a character, just as the narrator of a novel would be. Given the evidence of A. C. Elias about the acrimony of Swift's departure from the Temple household, evidence from Swift's "Journal to Stella" about how uninvolved in the Temple household Swift had been, and the number of repeated observations about himself by the "Tale's" author, it seems reasonable to propose that the digressions reflect a single "type" of man, if not a particular character. In any case, the digressions are each readerly tests; each tests whether or not the reader is intelligent and sceptical enough to detect