Show ABOUT THE MONGOOSE I rb The crusade now being wa cd n against I rats ma may have ho tho effect of introducing a now new domestic pet pot into ED England and inthe in tho the mongoose To rats as well as to snakes the nion mongoose is a deadly deady enemy enemy and it its importation into British Borneo some j-eais j MS 1 ago 0 eradicated the plague of rats iu in that land The same courso course tas followed when rats rab became a great groat pest peat in the sugar cane fields of ot Hawaii as also alo in Jamaica where the mongoose cleared the islands of or snakes aud and rats But at the he same amo time the mOll mongoose by br exterminating c tho the ground round lizard so ao in increased increased in- in creased tho swarm of ticks analice ana grass lice that the government had to take measures a against the mongoose |