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wood rat
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Origin of wood rat1
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A new subspecies of wood rat (Neotoma) from northeastern Mexico.
When Longhead returned in the evening he was treated to a surprise—supper of two courses, broiled wood-rat and roasted carrot.
He heard the scurrying flight of a starved wood-rat, a flutter of loose papers, and then the silence of death fell about him.
The wood rat and magpie will steal every imaginable article about a house, carry it away and secrete it.
He is a most lovely wood-rat, and all his ways are ways of gentleness.
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