EGG STEALING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2096, 16 September 1885, Page 2

EGG STEALING.

Mr S. Jennings of Denmark Hill, recently wrote to the London " Times" —I can explain how the rats remove eggs without breaking them, as th.ati feat was accomplished under the observation of a friend of mine, who related the same to me. My friend was in the habit of placing , his new laid eggs in a tea-caddy along with the tea; but night after night they were mysteriously removed, and very naturally the servants got the blame. One night however, my friend was reading at a late hour, when he heard the scuffling of rats ascending the sideboard on which was the tea-caddy containing eggs. The thought instantly flashed across his mind that he liad been perhaps unjustly severe towards his servants, and he silently watched the proceedings. It wa3 a simplo manner to remove the lid; two or three rats descended into the , teacaddy, some remaining on the top, and in a minute the mystery was solved. One rat clasping the egg was being hauled along by his companions,, gently lifting and lowering him to the floor, whence, on his back, and still dinging to the egg, they succeeded in safely carrying it away, and the whole of . them were removed without breaking one.' Another correspondent of the "Times" says One rat tajjos an egg in his pawß and clasps it to his breast, throwing himself on his back. Another rat seizes the tail of the first one and draws hini sledgelike along.

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