"The best laid schemes o' mice and men often go astray. Robert Burns 1759 -1796 "Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us." A.J. Cronin Parts of All of Us The Simple and The Complex The four imaginary characters depicted in this story-- the mice: "Sniff" and "Scurry," and the Littlepeople: "Hem" and "Haw"-- are intended to represent the simple and the complex parts of ourselves, regardless of our age, gender, race or nationality. Sometimes we may act like Sniff Who sniffs out change"