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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 569, 12 February 1891, Page 3

An ingenious boy in Wellington went and got some pieces of velvet from his mother, made a good imitation of a rat, and then with another boy went out into the street. With the aid of a long string they made the rat run up and down the channel, going under the bridges when it was close pressed. The boys concealed themselves at opposite points find the tun soon began. The attention of pkesers-by was attracted, and in a short time three men and a dog were chasing the jat up and down the gutter. Directly the men would give up the chase out again came the rat, and how long it might have continued Would be hard to say bad not the boys buret Out laughing. The men, when they saw the Clever trick, joined in the laugh too, admitting that it was ihe best joke they had heard of for yaark, The boys were only about nine years bt age respectively,