FEROCIOUS RAT
BABY BITTEN UNDER JAW SHOCK FOR MOTHER DUNEDIN, May 26. To have portion of its jaw nibbled by a large rat was the horn ole experience of an infant winch was lying out in me sun uie other morning. Tue parents, wuii meir cniid, are living in a superior type of boardinghouse in one of the best-known residential areas in the city. The child was placed out in the sun to sleep, and when the mother, in response to terrilied screaming, rusaed out, she found a rut lying ou us chest and gnawing at the ilesh under the jaw. The rat at once took to llight. Fortunately the mother's intervention came soon enough to prevent any permanent injury being imucted.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 138, 27 May 1931, Page 5
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