An Unpleasant Surprise
Dear Aunt Daisy, I would like to let you know of a misfortune I met with, as a warning to others. I had preserved 19 small bottles of small fruits, covered with porosan skin. They were most successful and I stored them in a cupboard under my water tank, which I had once used as a dairy. It was cool, clean, airy and dimly lit by 3 windows covered with perforated zinc. I noticed one day some juice on the floor and later the bottles splashed with juice. So I investigated and drew out all the little bottles which were behind the larger ones with screwtop lids. To my dismay I discovered a rat had gnawed holes in every bottle cover. The holes were only large enough to enable the rat to insert its tai] and suck the sweetened syrup, but I did not fancy "rat-tail syrup" and reluctantly consigned the contents of all the bottles to the compost heap. The porosan covers are excellent and a great boon: but I would like to warn others to |
beware of rats.
Lydia.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 23
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184An Unpleasant Surprise New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 23
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