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Evening Star, Issue 17953, 26 April 1922, Page 2

Many stories are told about tho sagacity of dogs, and others about the size of 1 i3ii, but one rarely hears a tale conccrn--1 i U rr a rat. However, a gentleman at a social gathering in Timaru the other ovenl ing added one to tho collection. _ Tho nar--1 rator said a storeman friend of his keeps ■■ wire rat trap in ids store room—one ; i those enticing little contrivances into whu the rodent enters through an aperture at (: j top, and then discovers that it is debam from a departure by the same means. T!. ! other day tho storeman noticed that the: j were two rats in tho trap, and as ho vm } gazing at tho captives from a distance an ' olher°rat ventured up to tho cage. Thin j Httle animal, though, did not try to join t the company of tho others inside. Instead, it-behaved in a peculiar imuiner to ■ the onlooker’s way of thinking. The rat betran to rub its nose up tho bars of the ! door at tho side of tho trap! And pre- ' sontly this small gateway began to open 1 from tho bottom! It was an attempt at rescue, but before it could bo fully carried out the storeman intervened, and with a well-directed shot killed the wise rat. No more grinding of teeth with WADE’S WORM PlGS.—{AdvtJ