Pet Rats —l was astonished, on visiting the houses of some of the inhabitants, to see a huge rat walking quietly about the room, and crawling up the master's legs in a cool and familiar manner. Instead of repulsing it, or evincing any alarm, lie took it up in his hands and caressed it: and then I learned for tin; first lime, and to my utter astonishment, that it was a custom prevalent in Dangkok to keep pet rats, whiehare taken very young, and carefully reared, till they attain a perfectly monstrous size from good and plentiful feeding. The domestic rats are kept expressly to free the house of other vermin of their own race, and so ferocious are they in the onslaughts they make, that few houses arc ever annoyed by mice or ■'fits.— Scale's ttvsitlcnrc In Slam.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 115, 19 May 1853, Page 4
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139Untitled Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume V, Issue 115, 19 May 1853, Page 4
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