TO CATCH RATS.
Cover the top of a common barrel with stiff, stout paper, tying the edge round the barrel; place a board so that the rata may have a easy access to the top; sprinkle cheese parings or other feed for the rats on the paper for several days until they begin to think that they have a right to their daily rations from this source ; then place in the bottom of the barrel a piece of rock about 6 or 7in high, filling with water until only enough projects above the water for one rat to lodge upon. Now replace the paper, first cutting a cross in the middle, and the first, rat that comes on tho barrel top goes goes through into the water, and climbs on the rock. The paper comes back to its original position, and tho second rat follows the first. Then begins a fight for the possession of the dry place on the stone, the noise of which attracts the others who share the same fate.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3231, 7 November 1881, Page 4
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173TO CATCH RATS. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3231, 7 November 1881, Page 4
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