THE WILY RAT-CATCHER.
There are always a few enterprising men willing to turn popular crazes to their personal advantage, and one of these has been heard from in the southern suburbs of Sydney. This little game .is simplicity itself. The municipalities offer 2d a head for -rats. Everybody knows they are shockingly dear at the price, but the alert individual above-mentioned knows .how to turn .any rats he comes across to much bettor advantage. Selecting a likely looking house, he knocks, asks to see the master or the mistress, the latter for choicefj explains that he is an expert rat catcher, and offers to hunt the premises if the proprietor is willing to pay "him Is per head for every rat he catohes. If the owner is agreeable, 1 he puts in a few hours about the ■stable and outhouses, and then appears with five or six dead rats, collects on them and moves on. Quite a legitimate business, of course — only for the fact that the expert makes the same set of rats serve for.- half-a-dozen houses.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 145, 15 May 1900, Page 3
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178THE WILY RAT-CATCHER. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 145, 15 May 1900, Page 3
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