Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — A Canary Kills a Rat. [ARTICLE]

A Canary Kills a Rat.

Joseph Thompson, a deputy clerk of the Court, and at one time a prominent candidate for the Mayoralty of Baltimore, has a canary of which he has always been very proud. He is prouder of the little bird than ever now, on account of the fact that last Thursday night, after a desperate fight with a rat, the little yellow fellow came off a victor. Just before the family retired to rest at their residence, Mrs. Thompson placed the bird cage on the sideboard in the dining room. During the night a half-grown rat forced himself into the cage and proceeded to devour the bird’s food. This was thebeginning of the trouble. The canary flew from its perch and the battle began. When Mrs. Thompson came into the dining room the next morning she found a dead rodent lying on its back on the floor of the bird cage, while the canary was singing merrily from its perch above. The beak of the bird had penetrated the eye of the rat, entering the brain and causing instant death.