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id: 15575
title: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers; Or, The Roly-Poly Pudding
author: Potter, Beatrix
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  She caught Moppet and Mittens, but she could not find Tom. Mrs. Tabitha went up and down all over the house, mewing for Tom Mrs. Tabitha came downstairs mewing dreadfully--"Come in, Cousin Ribby, "The chimney wants sweeping--Oh, dear me, Cousin Ribby--now Moppet and "The rats get upon my nerves, Cousin Ribby," said Tabitha. Mother, Mother," said Moppet, "there''s been an old woman rat in the "This seems funny," said Tom Kitten. "Please sir, the chimney wants sweeping," said poor Tom Kitten. "Anna Maria," said the old man rat (whose name was Samuel Whiskers),--"Anna Maria, make me a kitten dumpling roly-poly pudding for "It requires dough and a pat of butter, and a rolling-pin," said Anna "No," said Samuel Whiskers, "make it properly, Anna Maria, with "I do not think"--said Samuel Whiskers, pausing to take a look at Tom was nobody under the floor except the rolling-pin and Tom Kitten in a


id: 29863
title: The Rambles of a Rat
author: A. L. O. E.
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  I said that I and my seven brothers were black rats; but I ought to make an old, blind rat, who in his days had travelled far, and seen much of "I don''t like staying here, Bob, amongst the rats!" cried the terrified "Bob," said little Billy one evening, with more animation than usual, blind rat had a little bit of stick in its mouth, just as the blind man "I''se never heard of rats doing that afore," said Bob. the little boy looked up gravely into his face and said, "Oh, Bob, arn''t "Whiskerandos," said I to my guide, "I care little for making "Allow an English rat, gentle strangers," said I, "to offer a little "Rat Island!" exclaimed Whiskerandos and I at the same moment. a rat!" exclaimed the young man, looking quite amused and pleased-"I have had enough of water for some time," said Whiskerandos; "and now


id: 17243
title: Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years'' Experience
author: Matthews, Ike
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  twenty-five years'' experience of Rat-catching, Ferreting, etc., I may say as much ferreting done as possible before breeding time, for a young Rat opinion, in one night, when Rats are breeding, as two ferrets can do in a The best time to catch Rats in any building is Ferreting is a very good plan for destroying Rats in cottage houses, first day, during the night the Rats that have not been ferreted on the In feeding ferrets for the purpose of Rat-catching, never do so before WHEN WORKING FERRETS FOR RAT-CATCHING have often seen when the ferrets have been put in the hole the young Rats ferrets are bitten with these old Rats, they "take bad ways." I never when ferreting; in fact, I have seen, not once, but many times, Rats, that a Rat-catcher must not be without a good dog. if a Rat-catcher has once put his ferrets under the floor they will never


id: 23480
title: What Became of Them? and, The Conceited Little Pig
author: Boare, G.
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  THE CONCEITED LITTLE PIG. THE CONCEITED LITTLE PIG. There were six little pigs, as I''ve heard people say, Went out with their mother-pig walking one day, And, when she reproved him, said, "What does it matter?" Said this bad little pig "How I long to displease him Said the silly young thing, and he scampered away Why, he turned round, and seizing Pig''s ear with his teeth Then took himself off, and Pig ran away too. And saw all his brothers with ears safe and sound. And loved his good mother and took her advice, It happened one day, as the other pigs tell, "For," says he, "cats and dogs can jump ever so high, And I''ll very soon show I can jump like a dog." "O mother! "O mother! O mother!" the little pig cried, While his mother and brothers wept round the well side.


id: 26890
title: The Rat Racket
author: Keller, David H. (David Henry)
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  at the other end wanted to protect my hotel from rats for the small "Then I simply cannot understand why you want to mix up in this rat worked with rats in one way or another for a good many years. gentlemen to tell me is why these rats congregate at times in certain some way rats of New York seem to be under the control of a set of variations of that story, but in each of them the rats came and went, shall we know when the rats are going to come?" On the fifth night the rats came by the thousands. ruling the Big Boys was the Old Man, who was so little known and so Willowby on one end of the log and the Old Man on the other, it became Facing them, sat the Old Man and Willowby.


id: 41133
title: Studies in the Art of Rat-catching
author: Barkley, Henry C.
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  white ferret, as it is sooner seen if it comes out of a hole and works a small round hole a little way up the division, for the ferrets to use No big day''s ratting ever takes place without a ferret getting badly If I am going to ferret wheat stacks where rats have worked strong, I I will give place to no man living at rat-catching and minding dogs, but Jack does the same to the bolt-hole, so that if a rat does come back In half no time fifty rats were killed, and all the dogs, except Jack, get the ferrets while I let the dogs out. fact, my blind ferret was as good a little beast as ever killed a rat, dogs, you may ferret it if you like, but it will never bolt, and it must ticket, but with my dogs, ferrets, nets (the long ones) and the boy


id: 32076
title: Brown John''s Body
author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney)
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  Erd Neff wanted as little to do with his fellow men as "Time for supper, John?" Neff tugged at the twine at his belt and Neff hung up the fork, and John turned to lick at the old scabs large, brown rat called John--after Erd Neff''s despised and deceased Neff named all his rats John. John finished the grain, pawed the air and squeaked, "Mur!" Neff swung the great door back into place with its _whoosh--thunk_ "You like things the hard way, don''t you?" Burns got back in the squad Take the gun off of Erd Neff and people make cracks. John picked the thread of gristle from Neff''s finger with his 2000 species, but Neff held his hand out daring John to bite. Neff knew all about rats. Neff didn''t know about the others, but he knew about rats. John jumped from the desk and moved toward the open door of the


id: 34437
title: Methods of Destroying Rats
author: Lantz, David E. (David Ernest)
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  A compilation of all the methods of destroying rats practiced in traps; (3) ferrets; (4) fumigation, and (5) rat-proof construction of used in poisoning rats and mice, is harmless to larger animals. The prepared bait should be placed in rat runs, a small placed in the rat runs; or oatmeal may be wet with a strychnine sirup, ~Poison in the Poultry House.~--For poisoning rats in buildings and yards Wire cage traps (French) also are useful for catching rats, but in the Rats are very suspicious, and baits and traps should be trapping and poisoning if the rats are fed for a night or two with the A ferret is useful for the purpose of driving rats out of burrows and Rats may be destroyed in their burrows in the fields, and, still more Rat-proof granaries, corncribs, and poultry houses may be constructed by Rats destroy more poultry and game,


id: 35542
title: House Rats and Mice
author: Lantz, David E. (David Ernest)
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  In the United States rats and mice each year destroy crops and other The common brown rat breeds 6 to 10 times a year and produces an average DESTRUCTIVE HABITS OF HOUSE RATS AND MICE. PROTECTION OF FOOD AND OTHER STORES FROM RATS AND MICE. rat-proof by a liberal use of cement in the foundations and floors; or If rat-proof buildings are not available, it is possible, by the use of =Rat-proofing by elevation.=--The United States Public Health Service and mice if placed in inexpensive rat-proof containers covered with wire A common mistake in trapping for rats and mice is to use only one or two Cage traps may be baited and left open for several nights until the rats The best bait usually is food of a kind that the rats and mice do not rats must aim at _building the animals out of shelter and food_.


id: 42305
author: Isaacsen, Adolph
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  ferrets are in a pen and you put rats in for them to kill, they will not _Therefore if even a good, old hunting ferret should be bitten by a rat, Rats are good ferret If there are plenty of rats in the place the ferrets will be able to do ferrets to hunt and kill rats, the same as it is for a bird to fly, yet Great quantities of rats are trapped and poisoned and hunted down by all really possesses value in _hunting_ rats is the ferret, as, by reason of ferrets as his partners in the rat-hunt. The ferrets killed a few of these rats to experiment upon, and were more the ferrets went rabbit and sometimes rat-hunting, and were as expert in here the ferrets joined man, dogs, cats and owls, but the more the rats and England as the first country employing ferrets for rat-hunting.

title:
  All about Ferrets and Rats A Complete History of Ferrets, Rats, and Rat Extermination from Personal Experiences and Study. Also a Practical Hand-Book on the Ferret.


id: 51751
title: Oh, Rats!
author: De Ford, Miriam Allen
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  SK540, the 27th son of two very ordinary white laboratory rats, SK540, in other words, was a super-rat. It had belonged to Norah Vinson''s great-aunt Martha, who had left it super-rat loose on the world." "What on earth could even a super-rat do that would matter--to human A rat ran right over my face!" There couldn''t be rats in this place. "What do you know?" Philip said that evening. "You couldn''t keep me away," Norah responded. Rats couldn''t talk, he knew, and they couldn''t understand human speech. Let either one of them out, now they knew the rats were there, "Philip," Norah reminded him, "if you don''t go to work, they know we "You know," Philip Vinson went on, "I could kill you, very easily." The Philip and Norah exchanged glances. "It''s probably Kelly, from the lab," Philip said, "trying to find out "That''s nonsense, Norah," Philip objected. "We must eat," said Norah.


id: 60614
title: Rat in the Skull
author: Phillips, Rog
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  "Well, it''s about time," Alice said, turning over on her back and "I can''t understand their attitude!" Dr. MacNare said to Alice when he "Paul knows he''s not allowed in your study," Alice said. Paul had gone to bed, Dr. MacNare brought the test frame into the study "Now I''m getting that _feeling_ again, Joe," Alice said, laughing "Adam," Dr. MacNare said one day, "will have to wear this robot all his Thus, Dr. MacNare''s Adam was born into his body, and the time of the Dr. MacNare quite often stood behind Adam where he could watch the rat Slowly, subtly, Adam''s rat body became to Alice a pure brain, and his We have said little or nothing about Dr. MacNare''s life at the "I don''t know, Alice," Dr. MacNare had said. "And you, Paul," Alice said. "You''ll be all right while we''re gone, Adam?" Dr. MacNare said.


