ATTACKED BY RATS.
The Hobart Mercuiyi £e,la£es that Mr Alexander H. Bruce >;: Wfho, occupies a cottage near the lire brigade station m Baphurst-street, on returning home at abdut half an-hom'^ajstmiilujglrt, heard his! little boy calling for, him. He complained that he was pe|gjpiring and had 'mirtrfeifftaiirifcr-i^pitt^ the; father found an open- wound, JBn the child's loft templo, .Jfcpm which the bloxijV?as. ; flpwin£ freely., -^S e J £s a Jt a 'l tioii'ol (He injury prise^y^ ils^lr; autl rMi that thp -up^-.ha.dr takeA^art >n sevfmniage 'during the! day!'a%ifter BTflce hdd M»ed to rest ho was aroused iby:.'~>what he describes a^; ]rp#Kfeling » a Ms® : J>a-jthß forehead, and felt that.hi«4ace was wet ; and upoii,gtiiking,,a;:jigii| m the glass he found Jtb.at his iace was "covered ..^ith-^loqd^y and; tha^jie ha;d c deep"*puncture^;9k (; h^,fQr^fe^ji and ab^ut the head. VerjLlittle investigation showed fb&t.i-he rats had; paid him: a yisit, and the n,)ystejy;,.wa,s solved, the neighbourliood being infested with : , ;.,,.; -. ; / ; ; ..-..- .-.f-.^r
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 297, 19 November 1883, Page 2
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152ATTACKED BY RATS. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 297, 19 November 1883, Page 2
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