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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 177, 21 April 1908, Page 9

' A burglar at Geneva, having failod. to find any .valuqbleSj/in .a house ffhich ho had 'intered, Mvalkcd: off \tho .'.babjv' This, was I'cmStinriicHbV with a vengeance, bub fortuiiatoly); tlio villain'.w'asj caught, and the littlo booty restored to its' parents.—London' "Evening,Nows a '.'.

Tlio other evening a; local-.resident,'whoso ; poultrypr.efec) o tho . sheltcir,.:afforded :by, luo trees'for'roosting\purposes to -that coiltaiiiod in their properly-constructed' • habitation) was startled at a late hour by tho" l ' distressful, crics of onb of 4ho'birds (says the : " Onmaru:;.Jlail;'!), and; on,; looking "into tho • troes wi|h ; a ; lantern to ascertain tlio. cause,discovc'rciil "on. one,' bLtho, topmost branches a : weasel o'n the back .of .a fowl leisurely sucking: the"bloodr from a.'wouiid inflicted'at tlio Ijack of' v tho'' headi ' Tho attempt at cs'rituro ■ was a fadurei ..but, a , trap was seV and i latoi ,'a, weasel was... caught \V hot her jt wis the x»dom, HUMtion,;or another, it is impossible » to state. Tho, incidont will servo to settle the: question' as,to whether thbsG rodonts \vill'' lor,,)nll not climb' trees.