These animals are undoubtedly far the most versatile and intelligent Rodents in the world.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
Originally brought to St. Michael during the gold rush by an old and patched-up barque from San Francisco, the enterprising Rodents boarded a river steamer and landed here, where conditions appear especially favourable to their reproduction.
"From Paris to New York by Land"
Harry de Windt
Both of these families and several other families belong to a bigger group called an order, and this order is the order of Gnawers, or Rodents.
"The-Burgess-Animal-Book-for-Children"
Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)