Both he and the younger rat were carrying bundles of it.
The rats carry the seeds and drop them through the grating.
So a rat had carried a piece of it onto the higher shelf.
At this, the rat closed the lid of the vessel and carried it across to the far side of the temple.
Although rats can carry disease, health officials consider them primarily a nuisance.
Peaches sighed, but went off anyway to one of the packs the rats had carried in and pulled out her bag.
Maybe the rats had carried it away to some deserted subway tunnel one dark night.
Back in the old days on Earth rats carried bubonic plague.
It occured to Silk then that a rat might have carried the dead bird there to eat.
Rather, a rat may remove food from its source and carry it to a feeding station for consumption.