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Show WISE RAT FOOLS A SMOOTH POISONER NANTUCKET. May 2 Robert K. Ap-pleton, Ap-pleton, a ' liveryman of this town, has been tricked by a gray nit that crawls about his bam, and Is sorrowing; over the death of ten of his prize fowls. He breeds some choice specimens annually, and for the last few months has been pestered by rat. He has frequently fre-quently caught a gllmp of the rodent a blr. Intelligent rellow. with Ion whiskers, sitting-, night and morning, upon one of the boams, watching the man do his chores. All sorts of tempting bait were tried, but the rat would not enter the trap. Attempts to shoot bins were unsuccessful, for he could apparently smell gunpowder a long -way off. and kept In seclusion when a gun was around. Mr. Appleton decided to try some "Rat Bisklt" Us night, and Just before dunk laid ona ot th crackers high up on the rafs favorite beam. This morning It bad disappeared, but Appleton found ten of his prisa birds trtrhed out In the rigors of death, with pieces of the poisoned biscuit bis-cuit scattered about. Mr. Rat waa calmly 'sitting on the beam reviewing the scene, possibly chuckling to himself ever the way he had turned the tabla. . . . Mr. Appleton vows revenge for -the death of bis birds, but la at a loss how I to capture the Intelligent little pcU |