Those who had conquered them were an animal folk of their own kind, who were called gray rats.

"The magazine is to be written on exercise-book paper," began Bibbs, and had only got thus far when he was interrupted by a perfect salvo of paper bags which little "Rats" discharged in quick succession.

In the deepest thickets I found wood-rat villagesgroups of huts four to six feet high, built of sticks and leaves in rough, tapering piles, like musk-rat cabins.

And I never knew any reasonable argument to appeal to Patricia, and Jack will be a cornered rat!

Ye talk of a drowned rat, but 'twas time to swim like a dog; I had been serv'd like a drown'd cat else.

Last time it was a pink rat.

A long-haired French rabbit was hopping about, and a tame white rat was perched on the shoulder of one of the boys, and kept his foothold there, no matter how suddenly the boy moved.

He looked at the dripping little brown rat beside him, and returned impulsively, "I'd rather play with you than any girl I ever saw.

I'm going to be part of the opposition," added the youthful "Rats," beaming with delight, "and I have got a whole heap of paper bags I'm going to burst while Fletcher's speaking.

The hall was constructed in the manner of a Roman atrium, and from the oblong pool of turgid water in the centre a troop of fat and otiose rats fled weakly squealing at my approach.

The master held in his hand a rusty old gin, the iron jaws of which were tightly closed upon the body of an enormous rat.

Yer ought ter see 'em swarm out on deck, like hungry rats, when thar's a fight comin'.

And I remembered now how people called him a dirty swamp-rat.

There were little red-painted refuge huts and garrison shelters, each with its 300-yard rifle range, where the riflemen practised daily with soft-nosed ammunition at targets in the shape of monstrous rats.

"What is the matter?" "Have they caught a real live rat?" "Who is hurt?" asks some one in English.

It was only through Dom Manuel's happening to arise very early one morning, at the call of nature, that he chanced to be passing through the hall when, at the moment of sunrise, the night-porter turned into an orange-colored rat, and crept into the wainscoting: and Manuel of course said nothing about this to anybody, because it was none of his affair.

In almost the last cave we entered, where two standing figures on the right and left mount guard over the well-known image of the Master, our footsteps roused a large female rat and her young, which crawled up the silent seated figure and took refuge on the very crown of its head.

Mr. Bennett, in his account of one of the mangoustes kept in the Tower, says, that on one occasion it killed no fewer than a dozen full-grown rats, which were loosened to it in a room sixteen feet square, in less than a minute and a half.

As a matter of fact, I don't trust the red-haired rat who" The girl interrupted while Donnegan still had control of his hair-trigger temper.

Le roman des rats.

He was a little red-haired, pale-eyed rat of a man, with ferrety eyes and a goatee beard, quiet and peaceable in his ways and inoffensive enough, but a rare hand at gossiping about the beach and the wallsyou might find him at all odd hours either in these public places or in the door of his shop, talking away with any idler like himself.

The heavenly rat.

It was such a diminutive beast, not as large as a good-sized rat, quite smaller than our own fence-corner chipmunks of the East.

We may remark, in passing, that the beaver is very much like a gigantic water-rat, with this marked difference, that its tail is very broad and flat like a paddle.

It is a smell that will, until I die, be presented to me by those dark half-hidden passages, warrens of intricate fumbling ways with boards suddenly rising like little mountains in the path; behind the wainscot one hears the scuttling of innumerable rats.