item: #1 of 12
          id: 15575
      author: Potter, Beatrix
       title: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers; Or, The Roly-Poly Pudding
        date: None
       words: 2757
      flesch: 88
     summary: [Illustration] Please sir, the chimney wants sweeping, said poor Tom Kitten. * * * * * [Illustration] Now this is what had been happening to Tom Kitten, and it shows how very unwise it is to go up a chimney in a very old house, where a person does not know his way, and where there are enormous rats.
    keywords: illustration; kitten; tabitha; tom
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        item: #2 of 12
          id: 17243
      author: Matthews, Ike
       title: Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years' Experience
        date: None
       words: 14779
      flesch: 77
     summary: I have not only made it my study to discover the different and the best methods of catching Rats, but I have also taken great interest in watching their ways and habits, and I come to the conclusion that there is no sure way of completely exterminating the Rodents, especially in large towns. As an instance, I remember a private house where I was engaged catching Rats under a floor with ferrets.
    keywords: catcher; catching; day; dog; ferret; hole; night; place; rats; time; traps; way
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        item: #3 of 12
          id: 23480
      author: Boare, G.
       title: What Became of Them? and, The Conceited Little Pig
        date: None
       words: 931
      flesch: 91
     summary: Said this bad little pig How I long to displease him I daresay, if I grunt, it will mightily tease him. What matters it whether he bite me or no? Said the silly young thing, and he scampered away And grunted at Doggy, but what did Dog say?
    keywords: illustration; mother
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        item: #4 of 12
          id: 26890
      author: Keller, David H. (David Henry)
       title: The Rat Racket
        date: None
       words: 7262
      flesch: 86
     summary: I can put you in a grocery warehouse and guarantee that inside of a week you will see more rats than you ever dreamed of. When it came to rats, it was different.
    keywords: business; city; crawford; man; men; new; rats; time; willowby
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        item: #5 of 12
          id: 29863
      author: A. L. O. E.
       title: The Rambles of a Rat
        date: None
       words: 31719
      flesch: 81
     summary: Amongst the lowest classes in France, and the gypsies in England, we poor rats are known as an article of food; and I have heard that in the islands of the South Seas we were held in so much esteem, that 'sweet as a rat' passed as a proverb. I felt assured that he would there bravely defend himself to the last; but what could one poor rat do, albeit the boldest of his race, against such terrible odds! Ha! a rat! exclaimed the young man, looking quite amused and pleased-- barbarian that he was!-- at the prospect of seeing a poor defenceless creature torn to pieces before him.
    keywords: billy; bob; boy; brother; chapter; day; door; eyes; father; head; life; like; look; man; neddy; night; oddity; place; poor; race; rat; rats; russian; shed; thought; time; water; way; whiskerandos
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        item: #6 of 12
          id: 32076
      author: Marks, Winston K. (Winston Kinney)
       title: Brown John's Body
        date: None
       words: 4612
      flesch: 98
     summary: Brown John's Body _by_ _Winston Marks_ Erd Neff wanted as little to do with his fellow men as possible. * * * Erd Neff dropped a thin bundle of currency into the $100 bill drawer of the flat-top desk and kicked the drawer shut with a dusty boot.
    keywords: air; door; erd; gun; john; man; neff; rats; wheat
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        item: #7 of 12
          id: 34437
      author: Lantz, David E. (David Ernest)
       title: Methods of Destroying Rats
        date: None
       words: 2345
      flesch: 66
     summary: The value of carnivorous mammals and the larger birds of prey in destroying rats should be more fully recognized, especially by the farmer and the game preserver. [Footnote A: Several species of rats are known as house rats, including the black rat (_Mus rattus_), the roof rat (_Mus alexandrinus_), and the brown rat (_Mus norvegicus_).
    keywords: bait; methods; proof; rats; traps; use
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        item: #8 of 12
          id: 35542
      author: Lantz, David E. (David Ernest)
       title: House Rats and Mice
        date: None
       words: 8552
      flesch: 70
     summary: The animal is usually caught by the foot, and its squealing has a tendency to frighten other rats. The value of carnivorous mammals and the larger birds of prey in destroying rats and mice should be more fully recognized, especially by the farmer and the game preserver.
    keywords: animals; buildings; cents; concrete; fig; food; mice; price; proof; rats; states; trap; use; wire
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        item: #9 of 12
          id: 41133
      author: Barkley, Henry C.
       title: Studies in the Art of Rat-catching
        date: None
       words: 32109
      flesch: 75
     summary: I have known old ferrets that would have faced a lion and seemed to care nothing about being badly bitten; whereas I have known a young ferret turn out good-for-nothing from having one sharp nip from a rat. Good dogs!
    keywords: boat; boy; chance; day; days; dogs; ferret; good; grindum; half; head; hole; home; house; jack; look; man; morning; night; rabbit; rat; rats; round; sea; time; way; work
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        item: #10 of 12
          id: 42305
      author: Isaacsen, Adolph
       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.
        date: None
       words: 17298
      flesch: 71
     summary: The rat's bite, and especially that of old rats, is very poisonous, and its teeth are finely adapted for severe, quick, sharp, and deep cutting. ALL ABOUT FERRETS AND RATS A Complete History of Ferrets, Rats, and Rat Extermination from Personal Experiences and Study.
    keywords: animal; day; days; dog; dogs; ferret; food; good; hunting; kind; man; new; people; place; present; rat; rats; rect; time; trap; use; ver; way; work; writer
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        item: #11 of 12
          id: 51751
      author: De Ford, Miriam Allen
       title: Oh, Rats!
        date: None
       words: 3568
      flesch: 94
     summary: His brain showed also a marked increase in cholinesterase over that of other rats. SK540, in other words, was a super-rat. About the time Norah Vinson dropped off after her frightened wakening, SK540 was confronting a culprit.
    keywords: laboratory; norah; philip; rats; sk540
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        item: #12 of 12
          id: 60614
      author: Phillips, Rog
       title: Rat in the Skull
        date: None
       words: 9005
      flesch: 86
     summary: But anyone who studies the published writings of Dr. MacNare must inevitably conclude that he was a competent, responsible scientist, and a firm believer in institutional research, research by teams, rather than in private research and go-it-alone secrecy, the course he eventually followed. Certainly, on that day in late August, 1955, at the little cabin on the Russian River, a hundred miles upstate from the university, when Dr. MacNare completed his paper on _An Experimental Approach to the Psychological Phenomena of Verification_, he had no slightest thought of going it alone.
    keywords: adam; alice; body; joe; macnare; paul; rat; robot; study
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