This short, which according to more recent info (I tried to correct the date) is from early 1948, is a Cinecolor short and makes unique use of the Popeye storyline with a country bumpkin mouse instead of the Popeye type (Warners themselves would use this for their live monkey short "Orange Blossoms For Violet" and their Daffy Duck cartoon, "Mussle Tussle"), with a mouse Elmo (Stan Freberg and Mel Blanc) planning on an ermine quest--but gets on the ermine in an unusual way...
Great three iris shot opening of the three mice, and use of "Rural Rhymthm", the old Hoosier Hot Shots novelty number. One of Warner Brothers last cartoons about sweetheart mice till Chuck Jones's "Mouse Warming". I noticed something these two have in common--more "sexy" girl mouse leads, a recurring musical theme ("Rural Rhythm" for "A Hick, A SLick, and a Chick", and "L'Amours, ToJours," for "Mouse Warming" (neither mentioned din their respective entries), the supporting appearance of famous WB cats in otherways nearly oneshot cartoons (Sylvetser, here, and Claude in the latter--Art Davis loved depicted Sylvester differently in terms of voice in this and "Cats as Cats Can", but, then this was an early effort of Sylvester) also this and "Mouse Warming" seem to to be the only use (not counting that one Speedy Gonzales shorts with him as a mouse Lothario whose stealing "senereeta mice" is discarded, to use teen or young adult mouse protagonists (though Blackie, the villain, is clearly adult!). BTW the names..the Hick-Elmo and Chick-Daisy Lou. Other sweetheart mouse characters in WB cartoons were either totally adult-type (Friz Freleng's Frankie and Johnny tribute from 1937 "He was her man" and Robert McKimson's Honeymousers) or totally cute kid like (Ironically Tex Avery's "squeaky" (Bernice Hansen voiced) mouse toons!).
And look for a special iris out, too.
