A CURIOUS INCIDENT.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 105, 12 April 1876, Page 3

A CURIOUS INCIDENT.

Most of ua -would regard an iron safe to be proof against the machinations of n mouse. That fabled animal, however, contrived to enter one the other day, and, while inside, to destroy a parchment deed, which it took some time and trouble to get executed, as there were several parties to it, who mostly resided widely apart from each other, and the document had to be sent backwards and forwards over many miles of country prior to its completion. The legal firm who “ did” the deed at length received it back on an afternoon last week with nil the necessary signatures appended, and witnessed, and it was carefully placed in one of Marr’s large massive iron safes. The following morning, on the clerk opening the safe, lie saw a small dead mouse, and on taking out the deed referred to, in order to pay the stamp duty, it was found to have been so eaten by the little creature as to be quite useless, and to necessitate the preparation and execution of a fresh deed. The mouse must have secreted itself within the safe during the daytime. Those who use iron boxes, rooms, or cupboards, may take a lesson from this occurrence, and take the necessary precaution accordingly,—“ D.S. Cross.”