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    Revenge of the Rats
    Revenge of the Rats
    Revenge of the Rats
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    Revenge of the Rats

    By Michael Allender

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    The ninth in a series of fourteen books by Abbie Joules about her brother, Bendigo, as they grew up on their hard-scrabble farm in east Texas. Ben, and his friend Lydel, are faced with a dilemma on Ben's family farm. After an ill-advised plan to feed Lydel's two pet ferrets with dump ground rats, the family chicken coop becomes overrun with the ravenous, scaly-tailed beasts. An ultimatum comes from Ben's irate dad to rid the coup of the menace at all cost. Ben and Lydel's plan to use the rats themselves to deliver the coup de grace proves effective, but more costly than expected.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Allender
    Release dateApr 29, 2016
    ISBN9781311370259
    Revenge of the Rats
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    Michael Allender

    I was born in Dalhart, Texas, received degrees at Texas A&M in Wildlife Science and Psychology, and did post graduate work at Utah State in ethology. I worked as a professional photographer and wildlife artist, and authored "The Guadalupe Mountains Of Texas", published by the University of Texas Press, a coffee table book of a west Texas national park. I then worked for 25 years as a wood craftsman and entrepreneur. I currently live in Redmond, Oregon, and avail myself of every opportunity to paddle the wild rivers of the Pacific Northwest, from California to northern Canada and Alaska.

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      Revenge of the Rats - Michael Allender

      REVENGE OF THE RATS

      by

      Michael Allender

      Copyright 2014 Michael Allender

      Smashwords Edition

      (The ninth in a series of fourteen stories)

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      Revenge of the Rats

      (Story # 9)

      On our farm, any mouse or cotton rat over the age of two months was an old coon whose time was coming up soon. You might not know about the little cotton rats that live in the meadows and fields of the south. They are rather small, meek, and inoffensive creatures, and for cats, it takes less effort to catch one of

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