Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh
What were the rats carrying to the rosebush?
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The rats were carrying a large electrical cable to the rosebush.
It was electric cable, the heavy, black kind used for outdoor wiring and strung on telephone poles. The rats were hauling it laboriously through the grass, inching it along in the direction of a very large wild rosebush in the far corner of the yard.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, pg 37