Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1883 — Tobacco-Eating Rats. [ARTICLE]

Tobacco-Eating Rats.

“Say, mister, couldn’t you put something in that paper about rats eatin’ cigars ?” “What for?” “Waal, ye see, I’ve been hookin’ some o’ dad’s sheroots an’ he kinder got onto it an’ says he’s goin’ to lick me after breakfast to-morrow. Now, if you could stick somethin’ in the paper sayin’ that rats sometimes eat cigars an’ that once there was a bad man licked his boy for what the. rats had stole, ye see the o’e man might light on it m the mornin’ an’ think he’d better take the chance on lettin’ i?.e off. It’d help me out, an’ help you to fill up the paper too. See?"— Chicago Daily News.