A Money-Loving Rat.
A rat has recently caused considerable consternation in a French family. A gentleman on leaving his office in Paris locked up in his cupboard for temporary safety, a canvas bag containing about fifty gold coma. Next morning, when he went to fetch the imoncy to put in the bank, the cupboard was as bare as that of Mother Hubbard. The police were called in, and set to watch certain suspected persons, but in the meanwhile someone noticed a small hole in the cupboard, suggesting a four-legged thief. So small parcels of meal were locked up in the cupboard for two nights. These also disappearing, some of the woodwork was taken up, and the remnants of the meal, showed the way to a rat hole four feet away, where the remains of a canvas bag and the missing coins were duly discovered.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XIV, 2 April 1904, Page 60
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144A Money-Loving Rat. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XIV, 2 April 1904, Page 60
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