Disgusting Scene.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1460, 21 September 1885, Page 4

Disgusting Scene.

An extraordinary man and rat fight took place at Hey wood. A well-known man, after finishing his work, called at a public-house on his way home, and there met several rat-catchers, who had a large rat, which the new comer Was challenged to worry for a quart of beer. The conditions were that he was not to handle the rat with his hands. He accepted the challenge, and a string was attached to the rat's' tail sufficiently long to aUow the animal to move freely about a table upon which it was placed. The battle began, the biped following the movements of the quadruped for an opportunity to bits. The little ruminant drew first blood, meeting its incisors m its opponent's cheek. The man shook the rat off hjs. face as well as he could without handling it, and m a couple of minutes afterwards he had worried it. The rat was then cooked, and the victor ate his fair share of his body, declaring it to be quite luscious food. He drank his. quart of beer," but.ne^tcdayjie was ..riot- able to go to work, as the result of the previous even ing's exploit. .