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Show Rata Travel In an Army. An unusual sight wns witnessed tho other Sundn nfternoon, Just ns dark-noss dark-noss waB falling In tho vicinity of Jnncficld Mnnuro Woika. nbout four mllea north from Dundee, says an Hngllsh paper. As two plowmen plow-men wero coming nlong a byway, by-way, lending from tho Strathiuartlno road, they observed what appeared to bo an army of rata coming towarda thorn. Tho farm servants wero nt a losa what to do, but tlnall) they wisely rotrentcd behind a rldgo by tho aldo of tho load and watched In nmnze-mont nmnze-mont tho rats (Ho paat In tholr hundreds. hun-dreds. Whilo tho brown nnd gray rodents ro-dents woro running nlong they ndopt-ed ndopt-ed a zig zag course from sido to side o. tho road, and, at this point Kept up a continual chorus of squeaking, ns If St wero tho slgnnl of nlurm. |