Mr. Martin Routh, of Reading (Eng.)^ ■was born in 1846, and he well remembers staying with his great-uncle, Dr. Martin; Routh, the president of Magdalen Col« lege, Oxford, who died in 1851, in hia hundredth year. Dr. Routh was in the habit of relating that, in his youth, ha knew an old lady who well remembered seeing Charles 11. walking in the parks at Oxford,' accompanied by his spaniels.
The rat -population of Great Britain ia estimated at fifty millions—a little largei? than the human population. Every rafc costs about £2 a year for his upkeep—iii food eaten and food spoiled, commercial stocks destroyed and buildings damaged, The total material loss from rats is, there* fore^ some hundred millions pounds #
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 38, 14 February 1930, Page 3
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