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A Good Trap.

..» No traps that human ingenuity ever devised could have surpassed in effectiveness the one which made a rat a prisoner in the fish shop of Messrs Donaldson and Carson, Manse street, Dunedin, a day or two ago- When the proprietors of the shop arrived in the morning (says the Otago Daily Times) their attention was attracted by a noise which bore a resemblance to a spirit-rapping of a most persistent and aggravated type. On pursuing their investigation of the matter still further they discovered an oyster going through movements never hitherto heard of, and picking it up with some degree of caution, they found to their astonishment a full-sized rat hanging from it by the tail. The oyster had gripped the creature with a vice-like tenacity, and feeling the pressure the animal had made a bound, for its hole. Owing to the size of the oyster, however, it could not get far beyond the orifice, and consequently was suspended in the unpleasant position that it could not get up nor down.

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Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1898, Page 3

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A Good Trap. Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1898, Page 3

A Good Trap. Manawatu Herald, 29 March 1898, Page 3

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