RATS IN AN ORGAN.
For some reason best known to them-1 selves, a tribe of rats has taken up ] its abode in the organ of the Napier Cathedral. Already three pipes have .been eaten through, and the trouble has now assumed such serious proportions that it has been found necessary to call in the assistance of a number of ferrets. " As the seat'of the trouble is ssid to lie in the most delicate part of the structure, it is difficult to understand why the authorities should adopt a course which is liable to make matters infinitely worse. Mark Twain's advice to the lady who complained that there.was a mouse in her piano was to "take the instrument to pieces,'' and one would naturally think that in the present instance the easiest way out of the difficulty would be to send lor the organ builders, instead of turning the instrument into a kind of zoo. where the strains of Beethoven and Mendelsohn are likely to be punctuated by the cavorting squeals of the vermin in the pipes. On the other hand ferrets are just as likely to develop an inclination to.dine off organ pipes, as the rodents they are set to catch.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10033, 6 July 1910, Page 4
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