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secuted in their Camp by a prodigious number
of famished Mice and Rats which came from
the ruined Town, and which * leap’d upon * See Tom. I.
them to bite them ; insomuch that they were
necessitated to wage an open War with that Ver-
min, and to watch in good numbers, by turns, Hatton,
to prevent their assaulting those who ssept. They
also say, that those same Creatures attacked a
Cat and devoured her.
AN
i.
secuted in their Camp by a prodigious number
of famished Mice and Rats which came from
the ruined Town, and which * leap’d upon * See Tom. I.
them to bite them ; insomuch that they were
necessitated to wage an open War with that Ver-
min, and to watch in good numbers, by turns, Hatton,
to prevent their assaulting those who ssept. They
also say, that those same Creatures attacked a
Cat and devoured her.
AN
i.