COCKLE CATCHES MOUSE
.RODENT HELD BY THE. TAIL Incident In Gisborne Pantry Press Assoclatton— Copyright. Gisborne, June 18. A mouse or rat trap is the usual method of imprisoning rodents that make raids on the family pantry, but a cockle from Kutarefe did its work as a watchman effectively in the
pantry of a residence in Ormond Road. It was found by ithe housewife this morning that one of some cockles on -a. plate awaiting the morning meal had clamped on to the tall of a mouse.
Though pinioned, the mouse had taken refuge in a hole giving access to the pantry. It had found it impossible 'to drag the shellfish through the opening When an -attempt was made to restore the cockle to the
plane it was a greatly-surprised housewife who found the securelyi'astened mouse.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 19 June 1937, Page 5
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136COCKLE CATCHES MOUSE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 451, 19 June 1937, Page 5
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