So go along with your moccasins and put them away in the chest, or the rats and mice will gnaw them, as rats and mice are always sure to do with everything of the sort we set our hearts too much on.
In these low and twisted streets, the devastation was greatest and the people had scurried like rats to cover.
But it is all over now, for the rats and for us too; and we can be glad you fellows found us.
To be plain, Featherhead had formed a friendship with the Rats of Rat Hollow--a race of people whose honesty was doubtful.
He did not tell Featherhead a certain secret--namely, that a Scotch terrier was about to be bought to keeprats from the grain.
The next night three ratswere electrocuted by this device.
So one day when I went down to the mill I found them discussing the possibility of killing the rats by electricity.
We will keep cheese in the inner compartment, the walls of which shall be of wires so that the rats may see the cheese.
May your granaries be full, and your rats empty, and your chickens plump, and your envious neighbors lean, and your labourers busy, and you as idle and as happy as the day is long!
Rats given enriched experience develop, in comparison with their restricted littermates, greater weight and thickness of cortical tissue and an associated proportional increase in total acetylcholinesterase activity of the cortex.
The rats showed no difference in growth rate, oxygen consumption, food and water intake, or behavior from control rats in air at 1 atm.
Sonicated and cooked bacteria, when fed to white rats as 12 percent of the solids of a nutritionally balanced diet, were eaten readily and produced no ill effects.
When given at a dose of 116 mg/kg daily for 1 month, ratsshowed an enhanced response and greater resistance to extinction in a shock-motivated behavioral response.
Effects of Deceleration on Rats Exposed to Prolonged Centrifugation.
Indications that brown fat has a thermogenic role in rats exposed to low temperatures suggest that this may be the case in true hibernators ([ref.
Rats which were normally right handed were forced to modify their handedness in order to obtain food.
She got up with a headache, but her hostess only laughed at the fright the rats had given her, and added that they only attacked strangers, and the people of the house were used to them.
Alexyei Stepanitch was forced to light a candle and arm himself with a window-prop for the defence of the bed, on which the rats kept jumping up as long as it was dark.
Tanyusha was afraid of rats herself; and she and Aksinya could not look unmoved at the signs of suffering on their sister-in-law's face.
As soon as the candle was out, a great disturbance began in the room; the pattering and noise increased, and swarms of rats soon assailed them with such boldness that the poor bride lay awake all night, shaking with fear and disgust.
What made thousands of peace-loving men go on in the filth and dirt, only to die like rats at the end.
It may well be that hunting butterflies or dissecting rats are more suitable pursuits for young Percival Johnson than doing scram practice up against the playground wall.
The truth was the ferrets were more afraid of the rats than the rats were of them.
I was the only other passenger from Lima, and the ship was half empty, and full of rats and cockroaches and scorpions.
The canvas ripped as Torpenhow's booted foot shot through it, and the terrier jumped down, thinking ratswere about.
Merrick: And what will make us water-rats or otters, To keep our breath still living through a dive That lasts until the earth's burnt out?
You are like boys that go to hunt for ghosts, And turn the scuttle of rats to a roused demon Crawling to shut the door of the barn they search.
Sometimes wooden disks or inverted cones of bamboo slatwork are attached to the posts of the rice granary to prevent the entrance of rats and mice.
We would be glad to get rid of them if we could; but if we were to trap all the rats on the island, it would occupy our whole time.
In one corner stood a heap of straw and a winnowing machine, under which half a dozen rats scampered as we came in.
Tame ducks and water rats are frequently thus caught; but the most singular coincidence of this kind happened to a friend who, on going down the Otter to fish, had to cross a bridge.
Getting out a wagonette, I soon had it filled with volunteers, and drove them over to the barn, where we once more set to work, and for the next few hours the rats and spiders had a bad time of it.
There are thousands of rats in this part of the line, and they're audacious devils.
The rats worried him a little--they were bold enough to bare their teeth when they met him down a trench, and there was one big fellow called Cuthbert, who romped round his dugout and actually bit his ear one night.
Rats are the worst plague," said a colonel, coming out of the battalion headquarters, where he had a hole large enough for a bed and table.
One boy was sitting with his back to the beams, playing a penny whistle very softly to himself, or perhaps to the rats under the straws.
Men as weak as rats had to sit up in bed, or crawl out of it, and shave themselves.
I have told about lice and rats and mine-shafts there.
Rats don’t have minds that could show any real damage such as the loss of power to rejuvenate.
When these ducks were about ten days old, five of them were taken away from beneath the hen by the rats, during the nighttime, the rats sucking them to death and leaving the body perfect.
I was awakened by this duck about midnight, and as I feared the rats were making an attack, I got up immediately, went to the building, and found the ducks uninjured.
I then returned to bed, supposing the rats had retreated.
My duck, which escaped this danger, now alarms all the other ducks and the fowls in the most extraordinary manner, as soon as rats appear in the building in which they are confined, whether it be in the night or the morning.
First across to Jimmy's side to gather his rats and reset his traps, then to his own.
All the men that have peopled the earth since time began could have their brains rolled into one, and he would stand helpless before the anatomy of one of the rats in these bags.
Jimmy, we must peel those rats in a hurry, and then clean the spiles, and see how mony new ones we will need.
He would divide the rats at skinning time, so that Jimmy would have just twice as many as he, because Jimmy had a wife to support.
This evening the bag at his feet proved by its bulk that it contained just about one-half the rats Dannie carried.
When the river lay solid he usually carried home just twice the rats Dannie had, and as he had patronized Dannie all his life, it fretted Jimmy to be behind even one day at the traps.
I got to skin my rats first, or I'll be havin' to ask credit again," replied Jimmy.
At half-past ten, Dannie, with scarcely half the rats finished, went out into the storm and hitched to the single buggy.
Both the teams must be fed and bedded, a fire in his own house made, and two dozen rats skinned, and the skins put to stretch and cure.
The rats seem to have a lot of burrows and shift around among thim.
Several instances of cottonrats eating voles, caught in the same live-trap, were noted.
Presumably the cotton rats competed with the voles and exerted a depressing effect on their numbers.
Only when the levels of population were exceptionally high did the cotton rats spread into less productive habitats.
While cotton rats were abundant their competition may have been an important factor in depressing population levels of voles.
In extremely wet weather, as in the summer of 1951, the high survival rate of newborn cotton rats resulted in an increase in their detrimental effect on the population of voles.
However, cotton rats proved to be less well adapted to severe cold or drought than were voles.
Several subadults and some juvenal cotton rats did survive, however, and provided a breeding population from which the area was repopulated.
In June, 1951, the population of voles and cotton rats on Quarry Field was increasing rapidly whereas in House Field that trend was reversed.
The relationships between voles and cotton ratsare discussed further later in this report.
At this time, populations of cotton rats were increasing rapidly and competition between cotton rats and voles was intensified.
In February, 1952, the population of cottonrats was decimated suddenly by a short period of unusually cold weather.
So they departed with only such necessities as they could carry, and abandoned the rest to pack rats and chance wanderers such as I.
My imagination gave piratical significance to the sighing of the pine trees and the scampering of the pack rats over my roof.
In all the legends, the rats or mice are drawn together by sounds emanating from some kind of musical instrument.
Thus, I have seen my dog chase imaginary rats around my room after having been aroused while in the midst of a dream.
It is highly probable that the susceptibility of rats and mice to the influence of musical sounds has been known for ages.
We'll do some little experiments on the metabolism of rats deprived of water.
There are the two terriers and the under-keeper's Irish mongrel that's on to rats like a flash.
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