PIED PIPER—WANTED.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17389, 9 September 1924, Page 1

PIED PIPER—WANTED.

BY SIN BAD. Of late we’re been told that an influx of rats, of odious rodents, lias come to the town, in numbers sufficient to baffle the cats, and cause all the traps with disgust to break down. They swarm in the cellars, they riddle the walls, although you may use the most painstaking care, and then when the shadow of evening falls, they wander abroad to take supper and air. It’s always the costliest goods that they eat, and when they have sampled the wares in your shop, they sally at midnight out into the street, in search of another good possv to stop. In vain do you fight them with poison and trap. Your rat drives ambitious, they but view with scorn. At eats and at watchdogs their fingers they snap, and every one kdlcd brings a hundred to mourn. You delve in your cellar with candle and stick, all vainly attempting to safeguard your wares. Alas ! in the meantime, the rats gathered thick are gorging their fill in your store-room upstairs. Lest citizens shortly go bankrupt or mad, this menace of rodents we’ll have to put down. Our methods at present seem all to the bad, let’s hire a Pied Piper to clean up the town.