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Bijuben Babubhai Mistry has devised the novel method of painting rats black and green and setting the "new species" free. The coloured rats create such a scare in the species that the other rats take to their heels, far away from their coloured cousins.
The woman farmer has constantly been menaced by rats gobbling away a big chunk of her farm produce. She found rat poison of little use. After many trials, she chanced upon the colouring method after seeing the plight of a rat that got into a jam of lime. The single lime-white rat frightened its tribe out of the farm of Bijuben. Having got the cue, Bijuben managed to catch three rats, painted them in black and green colours. She then set the coloured rats free. When these rats tried to rejoin their tribe, they merely scared the other rats out of their wits. The other rats tried to find the nearest nook and corner. But the coloured rats knew all those secret places and chased the other rats out of the holes. The other rats have thus been left with little choice but to look for new pastures.
The method is that the coloured rats will look different from the normal. The other rats are frightened by these rats and run away. Thus the rat menace can be controlled.
While she is happy that the rat menace has been controlled, Bijuben is at the same time unhappy because the rats driven out of her farm will infest the neighbours' farm. However, she may not despair on this count because rats are already there. And if the neighbour uses the same trick of colouring live rats, the species will have to go far to eke out an existence. |
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