EXPLOITS OF A PAIR OF WOOD RATS 



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remarkable thing about them is their habit of entering houses 

 and playing practical jokes upon the inmates. A pair of 

 Wood Rats that I knew by reputation at Oak Lodge, in 

 Florida, first carried a lot of watermelon seeds from the 



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ground floor up-stairs, and hid them under a pillow. Then 

 they took from the kitchen a tablespoonful of cucumber 

 seeds, and placed them in the pocket of a vest which hung 

 up-stairs on a nail. In one night they removed from a box 

 eighty -five pieces of beehive fixtures, and hid them in an- 

 other box, and on the following night they deposited in the 

 first box about two quarts of corn and oats. 



In 1907 Oak Lodge was burned to the ground by a fire 

 that started in the attic story. Mrs. Latham, the owner, 



