Weaver and his colleagues have studied the fossilized skulls and skeletons of these animals, dug up in Montana, and they've given them a name: Filikomys primaevus (friendly or neighborly mouse).
It wasn't neighborly of me. But, of course, we thought the Yankees had burned Tara like they did Twelve Oaks and the MacIntosh house and that your folks had gone to Macon.