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Jack's Rat-trap

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
July
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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" The first thing is an empty barrel," said Jack. " An empty barrel !" exclairoed Mrs. Gill. " Why, bless you, child, you can't get a rat into an empty barrel." " You'll 8ee, mom," snid Jack, and he brought up an empty barrel froin the cellar. " How, mom," he said, " where do them rats spend the most of their time when tbey're about'r" " Eight on the lower shelf there in my store-room," replied Mrs. Gill ; and Jack preceeded to tie a large newBpaper over the top of the barrel, Then he cut a hole as large as his hand in the middle of the paper, and arranged around the hole sevural pieces of cheese, and niovod up the barrel quite near to the shelf. "Ithink we'll have a rat, mia, dead sure, by to-morrow morning," he said, as he oame out of the store-room and closed the door. When morning came Jack sought the store-room, and there he found two rats "swinging round the circle." Round and round the circle of the barrel they went; but there wasn't the ghost of a chance for either of them. They could not get out. - '- " Mra. Gill held up her hands in astonishment and looked with admiring eyes at Jack and the barrel. It was plain to Jack that he had won a victory. He saw something more than rats in the barrel, for he had completely conquered a place for himself in Mrs. Gill's heart. After he had poured water into the barrel and drowned the rats, he emptied the barrel, put on fresh dry paper and more bait, and set the barrel in the same place ; and the next morning another rat was flying around in it in wild exoitement. In ten. days the house was still ; no noise of rats could be heard any where. Jack was master of the situation and inaater of Mrs. Gill's heart. From that time he wanted nothing, ' for Mrs. Gill thought there was nothing too good for him in the house or in the store. Bhe called him " my own boy," and he was no

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus