Rats.
On the landmass called Boston, taxpayer reporters wrote quite a few rat stories surrounding the construction
of the huge, under-the-harbor highway, known as the Big Dig, when it was feared that rats
would take over the streets but didn't, thanks to a preventive rat
capaign -- though to be sure there were a lot of rats.
(pg. 30)
From
the book
entitled
RATS - Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted
Inhabitants -- by Robert Sullivan.
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