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to that of his own dogs when they found a rat. He 

 was reproaching himself with dreaming when he 

 noticed that all the eyes were turned in one direction, 

 and there he saw the cause a rat, just peeping out 

 of a hole in the brick floor, and apparently listening 

 to the sermon. It was duly caught next day. Mr 

 A. Trevor-Battye has watched the rats transporting 

 eggs on level ground. They rolled them in front 

 of them with their chests ; but the means by which 

 they carry them unbroken up and down stairs, is 

 not yet known. On the only occasion on which 

 Mr Battye saw them try to do this, they broke 

 the egg. 



