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1. Rats' Cleverness (continued)

   

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   following night but in the morning and the man could see was the trap snapped. He set the trap the next night and said he would stop up all night in the boil-house and watch it. He lit a light right over the pot of food and then lay down in the corner. He wasn't there very long when two rats came in. One was a blind rat and the other was bringing him in by means of a bit of a stick which both of them had in their mouths. They got up on top of the pot just where the trap was leading the blind rat took the stick out of his mouth and laid it on the trap and snapped it. Then the two of

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   History Edit

   Date

   1 May 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Nioclás Ó Néill