Crossword-Solution: CAVIES 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

There dwelt mice, cavies, and elusive little lizards; crickets sang all day long under it, while in every open space the green _epeiras_ spread their geometric webs.

There are no lamps in the streets of Kingston, and as all the decent part of the community are in their cavies by half-past nine in the evening, and as it was now “the witching time o’ night,” there was not a soul in the streets that we saw, except a solitary town guard now and then, lurking about some dark corner under the piazzas.

The three classes of cavies are Peruvians or Angoras, with long silky hair; Abyssinians, with coarse hair in tufts or rosettes, and the common guinea pig or smooth, cavy.

Neither cavies nor rabbits are especially intelligent but they do learn to know their master or at least the one who feeds them.

The rabbit, together with the hares and conies, rats and mice, voles, squirrels, beavers, cavies, guineapigs is included in that order of the class of mammals which is called the rodentia, and is distinguished by the character of the incisor teeth from other orders of the class.