Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A correspondent proposes a new way to kill rats. His own house being overrun with vermin, a servant girl who had seen the effects of “Old Bourbon Whiskey” on bipeds, thought she would try an experiment on the rats. Accordingly, she took a small quantity, made it very sweet with sugar, crumbled in bread enough for the crowd, and set the dish in the cellar. A few hours afterward she went and found several rats gloriously “fuddled,” engaged in throwing potato parings and hauling one another up to drink. These were easily disposed of; those not killed left the premises immediately, suffering from a severe headache. It is said the medicine is quite agreeable to take-St. Jo. Herald.