I remember only the horrible cold, the endless ages of waiting, the hopeless misery of the dugouts, foul, black rat-holes that we had to crawl into through sticky mud and filthy water.

"I wonder" she said, then, remembering an old rat trap that she had come across several days ago, ran into the pantry to get it.

The stuff in the package wrapped in coarse paper was an almost pure salt of arsenic, sold by grocers as rat-poison.

With all my heart; I am no rat-catcher; But if you need a poison, here is that Will pepper both your dogs, and rats, and cats: Nay, spare your purse: I give this in good will; And, as it proves, I pray you send to me, And let me know.

LONG, ANNIE M. 15 day rat embryo.

Sure enough, they heard the "rat-a-tat," of a drum.

The term rat-tail has been applied to several plants having a tail-like inflorescence, such as the Plantago lanceolata (ribwort plantain).

Whatever maybe the character of the building, and however difficult it may be for strangers to get to it, those living in the neighbourhood know its whereabouts, many having derived improvement from it, and if more went to it, pigeon-flying, gambling, Sunday rat hunting, tossing, drinking, and paganism generallythings which have long flourished in its localitywould be nearer a finish.

She would know how to depress a rat-terrier with it and make a lap-dog look sorry he came.

" "I'll give you twenty-eight for that musk-rat coat," said Mac.

Bureaucracy degenerates into a rat race.

"I'll bet a dollar to a rap on the nose that it's rat pie!

* GENERAL APPEARANCEA terrier calculated to take his own part in the rat pit, and not of the Whippet type.

During the first half of the nineteenth century the chief accomplishment of this terrier was rat-killing.

" II.The Magic of the Forest "The Creeks had stripped me almost naked, but Atala made me a dress out of the inner bark of the ash-tree and sewed some rat-skins into moccasins.

Country folk are very fond of an occasional rat hunt: they do lay themselves out to be hunted so tremendously.

Pack rat killer.

And I saw that there did be no snakes, neither any of the rat-things anigh; and so I had the Maid to sit very comfortable on the side of the pool, and I freed her shoes, and bathed her feet, and afterward rubbed them very steady with the ointment; and so for a good time, and alway to keep a looking out upon the Gorge.

The old castle had such secure walls and such few rat passages led through these, that the black rats had managed to protect themselves, and to prevent the gray rats from crowding in.

No one seemed to take the rat-plague very seriously in the Isle of Wight until last week, when several rodents were discovered at the Seaplane Station at Bembridge busily engaged in trying on the pilots' flying coats.

They wore the uniform of the rat police.

Again, the word 'harmless' is of the gravest character, seeing that within the folds of that paper were 35 grains of a deadly powder, which even for rat-powder would be mixed with something else.

When I said that the knock at my door was in the nature of a timid rat-rat I did not perhaps describe it quite accurately.

" Grim beckoned the Sikhs into the room, left one man in there in charge of Suliman, who swore blasphemously at being left behind, and led the way down a passage that opened into an alley connecting with a maze of others like rat runs, mostly arched over and all smelly with the unwashed gloom of ages.

Put down some of these 'ere Pastellers to do a mouse a nibbling at a candle, or a battle in the Soudang, or a rat snifin' at a smashed hegg, and you'd soon see they was no good!