OPOSSUM AS SWEEP
DESCENT OF A CHIMNEY WORKMANLIKE JOB DONE INCIDENT AT HERNE BAY A chimney sweeping opossum gave a Herne Bay family a surprise yesterday morning. Scratching sounds on the roof on Sunday night aroused only passing interest in the household, and it was not until the drawing room was entered yesterday morning that the cause was explained. A new fire which had been set was hardly discernible under a thick covering of soot, and an inspection of the chimney showed that it had been swept as if by a professional sweep. Tracks over the carpet and on the furniture revealed that the nocturnal visitor had been an opossum, whose unavailing efforts to escape by a window were also revealed in plentiful soot markings on the curtains. As no other mean 3 of egress was available, it is surmised that the opossum made his exit by the way he came.
"It was about the cheapest and least troublesome cleaning of a chimney I have had," the head of the household said yesterday. "The opossum did no damage other than that caused by his trail of sooty imprints and rubbing his coat against the furniture, and a vacuum cleaner dealt with that."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21280, 6 September 1932, Page 8
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