NOVEL RAT-TRAP.
A PUNEDIN EXPERIENCE. The Otago Daily Times of Friday says : — No traps tbat human ingenuity ever devised could have surpassed in effectiveness the one which made a rat a prisoner in the fish shop of Messrs Donaldson and Carson, Manse Street, yesterday. When the proprietors of the shop arrived in the morning at the scene of their daily operations their attention was attracted by a noise which bore a resemblance to spirit-rapping of a most persistent and aggravated type. On pursuing their investigation of the matter still further they discovered an oyster going through movements never hitherto heard of, and picking it up with' some degree of caution, they found to their astonishment a full-sized rat hanging from it by the tail. The oyster had gripped the creature with a vice-like tenacity, and feeling the pressure the animal had made a bound for its hole. Owing to the bum of the oyster, however, it could not get far beyond the orifice, and, consequently, was suspended in the unpleasant position that it could not get up or down. Sentence of deabh was passed on the rodent, and it was quickly depatched.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6133, 21 March 1898, Page 3
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