Photograph showing the untimely fate which befell a too inquisitive rat

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From Strand, July 1908

I send you a photograph showing the untimely fate which befell a too inquisitive rat. It had managed to force its way into an ostrich egg, but then found that getting out was quite another matter, and so perished in the miserable manner shown in the following picture, which was sent to me by Mr. William Fisher, Mahalapye, B. Bechuanaland. – Miss G. Gardiner, 78, Guilford Street, W.C.

An Egg as a Rat-Trap