BENEVOLENTRATS.
A Sussex clergyman testifies as f blows: 1 —Walking out. *o some meadows one oven- ■ in-/, h« observed a great number of rats , migrating from one place to another. He , stood perfectly still, and the whole as=emy binge passed c’oee to him. His astonlahj meat, however, was groat when he saw amongst the number an old blind rat, which held a piece of stick at one end in ■ its mou h, while another had hold of the ) other end of it, and thus conducted its blind companion A kindred cLcnmatanoa 1 was witnessed in 1757 bv Mr Purdew, a surgeon’s mite on bea d tho Lancaster. Lying awake one evening in h’s berth, be r saw » rat enter, lo> k cautiously around, s and retire He'soon returned, leading a ; sec m.d nt bv tho ear, and whi h appeared j to ho blind. A third rat joined them shortly afterwards, and assisted the original conductor in picking up fragments of ’ hiacut and placing them before their s infirm parent as the b’ind old patriarch w ;S supposed to be.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1353, 28 September 1886, Page 2
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180BENEVOLENTRATS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1353, 28 September 1886, Page 2
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