Eureka Reporter | 1904-04-01 | Page 4 | Rat Had Cogent Grinders

RAT HAD COGENT GRINDERS animal ate its way through large chunk of lead seese who lives at halfway town between windber and rummel has in his home a chunk of lead that gives an idea of the solidity of a rat s teeth and the muscular power of its jaws the jumbo rat gnawed a hole through the floor of the kitchen the bouse being an old one from which the family expects to remove soon mr seese placed a piece of lead weigh ing about fifteen pounds on the hole this did not stop mr rat he made a savage attack on the lead and did not let up until he had chewed off about a pound of lead making an opening large enough to enter the room the family then turned the metal another way it did not take long until the animal had scooped out a pound more of the lead to gain entrance to the ki chen to get something to satisfy its rat appetite pa era