MISSING BREAKFAST

Manawatu Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 4600, 23 January 1936, Page 2

MISSING BREAKFAST

' .ANIMAL’S STRANGE DIET. A farm hand wno lives alone in a whare near Blenheim had reason to suspect someone was stealing his rations which the farmer usually left on a tree stump. Among other things, three loaves of bread mysteriously disappeared and, as there were neither human beings nor animals, except a few horses, in the neighbourhood, the worker was puzzled—and hungry. He constructed a wooden .safe with a • loosefitting dooi’, which was hung on the outside wall of the building. All to no avail; a loaf vanished from the safe.

Then, early one morning, he was awakened bv the sound of someone in his kitchen. Stealthily, he crept to the door and gazed, not on a marauding cat burglar, but at old “Blossom,” a pensioned-off draught mare, who, with her head thrust through, the window, was in the act of eating the farm hand’s breakfast —a saucepan of cold stew 7 which had been left on the Ikitehen table.