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CONTENTS. 
Kats, the lightest of which weighed Four Pounds — A Mastiff, a Cat, a 
Raven, and a large Rat, all living together— A Rat sold for a Lap- 
Dog — Tame Rats in Japan— A Troop of Theatrical Rats— A Rat suckled 
by a Cat — A Cat with three legs suckling three Rats— A Piebald Rat — 
Familiarity of a strange Rat — Tommy the Mouse-killer — Ikey the Pet 
Rat— The Happy Family Payes 30—41 
CHAPTER V. 
RATS* NESTS, AND THE MATERIALS FOR BUILDING THEM. 
The Nests of London Rats — A Rat's Nest made of a Monkey's Skin 
— Nest of a Musical Rat — Bloomer Rats 41 — 47 
CHAPTER VI. 
DIETETICS OF RATS. 
Rats in the Larder — Fish their favourite Food — A Rat diving for Eels 
— An Eel-fishing Family, and their hidden Store of Fish — Rats on the 
Sea-coast of Scotland — Rats the Scavengers of London — The Pro- 
pensity of Rats for Flesh, Fowl, Oils, Sugars, Soaps, Roots, Babies, &c. 
— A Child's Fingers eaten off by a Rat — A Child's Toe gnawed by a 
Rat — A Child mutilated by a Rat — Melancholy Death of an Infant from 
the Bite of a Rat — A Child eaten alive by Rats — An Infant Child destroyed 
by Rats — A Bishop eaten by Rats — Death of a British Officer by Rats 
— The Leith Pieman — Mutilation of a Human Body by Rats — Rats at 
the Cape of Good Hope — The poor old Tortoise — Rats regaling them- 
selves with Florence Oil — Rats and Mice skimming Milk with their 
Tails — Tale of a Rat — Railway Theft Extraordinary — The liking of Rats 
for Sugar — Rats killed by a Cheshire Cheese Trap — The Rat and 
the Cherries — Rats in Newgate Market, London — Dispositions of 
Ruts 48—63 
CHAPTER VII. 
Testimonies of Modern Writers and Naturalists against the 
Rat 63—68 
CHAPTER VIII. 
PREDATORY AND DESTRUCTIVE HABITS OF RATS. 
A Warning to all who have Aviaries — A Rabbit Fancier in Trouble 
— Destruction of Rabbits and Pigeons ; with Caution to both young and 
old Fanciers — Destruction of an Old Hen by Rats — Destruction of two 
sitting Hens and their Eggs — Two full-grown Ducks killed by Rats — A 
Rat pursued by a Hen, while running away with one of her Chickens 
— A dozen Ducklings stolen by Rats — A vexatious case of Destruction 
among Goslings — The Eggs of Geese destroyed by Rats — Destruction 
of Malay Fowls and Ducks — A Rat-trap baited with two or three 
Dead Horses 68—81 
