SNAIL KILLS A MOUSE
The body of a mouse with its head fast in a large snail shell was fuuud in England recently. Apparently the mouse had eaten the snal. broken the shell, and pm-hed its head right thiough. Then the smll : corns to have strangled the mouse. Another theory is that the inoibi' was burrowing j n the earth, and pushed •is he’..l thr iiitrh the shell, which lay broken underg: ouml. Tt wns n sad little tnrrody of the count ry-ide.
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 9
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83SNAIL KILLS A MOUSE New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 9
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