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Perhaps it's a variant of the 'collecting food for his larder' behaviour?
Perhaps he's a young mouse, and he knows he should be collecting stuff, but hasn't quite got it right!
He's obviously a country mouse! Working away, and not living it up like his cousin the town mouse!