The English rat--not the pleasantest of our domestic creatures--has gone everywhere; to Australia, to New Zealand, to America: nothing but a complicated rat-miracle could ever root him out.
Walter Bagehot: “The English rat--not the pleasantest of our domestic creatures--has gone everywhere; to Australia, to New Zealand, to…”
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Bagehot humorously notes the invasive spread of the English rat to various continents.
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