| Show t- t STARTLING RAT STORY f. f 1 li A Lon o. o District Pot Poet p t Office omee Clo Closed d dand and aDd Houses e Overrun by br the Rodents I Abo About t a a. year ago an important district dis- dis triet post office in London was closed t It had been opened for stamps money orders ord rs post office orders and telegrams t till mi and it was in the tIle center district One of of a a populated thickly shut ard and a card aff affixed af- af day the doers were ere f fixed stating that it was closed for re- re r pa pairs rs eels passed and it was not ref re- re re- re f opened The rIlle postmaster general ret re re- c t complaints b by the score But Cut and still the the tile weeks weds became months i doors remained closed And the peon peo I wondered why pie around The ne truth is at last out and some somes s of f ire families residing residing- near know it itta to ta their cost The post office in ques- ques r Ji in had to be closed because it had 1 became the happy happ hunting ground pf of v v st hordes s of rats who consumed lett lettera let let- t 5 ten tars l tj ty y the be bagful and many many postal orders orders or- or ders derD money Doney order forms and other of- of 1 papers The rats forced o Cd the postoffice post pot o office ice to be closed and after afler numerous attempts to rid the place of the rodents A f t Jt it wa waa teas found po possible sible to do EO so O only by by putting down entirely new cement r r foundations and ent entirely bering iio the lace As nearly beary a as the r 1 post past office Led had but for its mere shell bell to be J rebuilt bunt That done the troubles of or oit the e neighborhood became accentuated Driven from the p post st off office of of- fice f cs c's the be rots rats have ve journeyed to the sur- sur rou Ging houses which are arc now in infested infested in- in lel d with th them he the correspondent Cadent from whom the I i bare Iba i comes has bas had several sev sev- eral ual cats cat in in his place and they have hace a. a 1 1 i t. t J i p tI I k kl w. w 4 l t MIA MIAh t. h don done something something- to keep things down but t to use his words to go home is isto isto isto to find the tIle wife and the maids with fl flying fly fly- ing pct petticoats coats rushing up the stairs servants wont won't stay in the house except for a n very veri short time ma mats ts and p pictures tures some of the latter several feet up the walls have bave been consumed my wife is terror-stricken terror and when I reach home at night Dight I often find her locked half starved started in an upper room afraid to move about and too nervous even to togo togo togo go near hear where the food is kept until I come in inh The informant states that his experience is similar to that thil t of many residing near him London London News 1 |
