Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — Squirrel and Rat. [ARTICLE]

Squirrel and Rat.

A young man living in tho outskirts of Portland caught a squirrel the other day and started in to tamo it, and he had such success that the squirrel is now as tamo as a house cat. The squirrel, ufter being boxed up for awhile, was given the run of the bouse, and went about upstairs and down at will. Then he was let out doot-s and allowed to play in the trees, but he got back into the house regularly at meal time and at nights. A few days ago the squirrel dodged into u rat hole and began running through the walls. The house.had been overrun witli rats, and after the squirrel got into the walls there was a scampering and a racket which threatened to tear the house down. The squirrel came out of the hole after awhile, and from that time nothing has been heard of rats in the house. The squirrel enjoys a scamper through the walls every day, but the rats have tnke themselves oil.—[Portland (Me.) Argus.