The pest I’ll never forget: the rats stood six or seven deep on the lawn beside my dormitory
All it took was one or two careless teenage girls giving the vermin a taste of their snacks and they became the most well-fed animals imaginable I’ve…
The Guardian reports: All it took was one or two careless teenage girls giving the vermin a taste of their snacks and they became the most well-fed animals imaginable I’ve written a fair amount about my boarding school years in Nigeria in the 90s, but never about the rats that accompanied my school experience.
All it took was one or two careless girls giving the rats a taste of the exotic and they became among…
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