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  • The next day the story appeared, "Guinea-pig doctor discovers new cure for ulcers ... and the cause."

    Barry J. Marshall - Autobiography 2006

  • Guinea-pig feeds on bread, grain, fruit, vegetables, tea leaves, and especially garden parsley, to which it is very partial.

    Chatterbox Stories of Natural History Anonymous

  • Guinea-pig successfully inoculated by means of tick.

    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

  • There were two Hedgehogs, a young Fox, five Badgers, a Mole, and a tame Guinea-pig.

    Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry

  • The Guinea-pig is a native of South America, and is remarkable for the beauty and variety of its colors, and the neatness of its appearance.

    Chatterbox Stories of Natural History Anonymous

  • And a League was formed, and there were Directors with Fees, and several out-of-service Tin Hats, and the Man-who-takes-the-credit, and a fine fat Guinea-pig, and all the rest of them.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1919

  • And a League was formed, and there were Directors with Fees, and several out-of-service Tin Hats, and the Man-who-takes-the-credit, and a fine fat Guinea-pig, and all the rest of them.

    The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition 1919

  • And a League was formed, and there were Directors with Fees, and several out-of-service Tin Hats, and the Man-who-takes-the-credit, and a fine fat Guinea-pig, and all the rest of them.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1917

  • Our tame birds come from this wild species and its absurd misnaming dates back to the period when the turkey and guinea-pig were misnamed in similar fashion—our European forefathers taking a large and hazy view of geography, and including Turkey, Guinea, India, and Muscovy as places which, in their capacity of being outlandish, could be comprehensively used as including America.

    II. Up the Paraguay 1914

  • Tigers 'tusks; the Pope's candle; the skeleton of a Guinea-pig; a fly-cap monkey, a piece of the true Cross; the Four Evangelists' heads cut out on a cherry stone; the King of Morocco's tobacco-pipe; Mary Queen of Scots 'pincushion; Queen Elizabeth's prayer-book; a pair of Nun's stockings; Job's ears, which grew on a tree; a frog in a tobacco stopper; and five hundred more odd relics!

    All About Coffee 1909

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