Drowning The Fleas.
NOVEL DEATH TRAP. A story, which is vouched for as true, is told by a Wellington man who recently returned from a “hitchhiking” tour of the North Island. Itconcerns an eccentric old shepherd who lives alone in a small hut some miles uortli of Auckland. An Aucklander calling on him one day avus not a little surprised to see the shepherd’s bed sAvingiug some sft. from the ground, or rather where the ground should have been, for under the bunk was a ditch about 18 inches deep, full of Avater. When asked for an explanation, the (dd man replied: “Well, it’s like this. I’m hero all alone, and when 1 let tin* dogs in for company at night the lleas jump off the dogs and attempt to get into the bed. But as they can’t jump so high they just fall into tin* water and get- droAvn- * cd.”
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19686, 18 April 1936, Page 2
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