INGENUITY REWARDED.
A farmer of Cherville, in the district of Oaux, Prance, was struck with heritor the other day, upon opening a cabinet, to discover that five bank-notes, one for live hundred francs, the other four for one hundred francs, had been gnawed to pieces by mice. He collected the fragments and sent them to the Bank of France, who, after much pains in trying to fit together the pieces, reported that a considerable portion of the notes were andjsuggested that, as mice do not eat fine paper, but simply cut it up to carry away as lin-
ing materfed for their nests, he should -organise a hunt and seek for the abode of the despoilere; The farmer at once •set to demolish an old wall pierced with mice holes, and found a nest composed of the precious fragments.. These were put together .arid sent, to the bank, 'where the officials managed to fit them, in with the pieces previously "sent to : them, and accordingly paid the farmer the value of the notes.
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Kumara Times, Issue 636, 11 October 1878, Page 2
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173INGENUITY REWARDED. Kumara Times, Issue 636, 11 October 1878, Page 2
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