"What are you doing that for?" "Why, because they may miss it, and smell a rat. Come on; let's get the key and see what it means.

Rats are, indeed, the most despised and contemptible parts of God's earth, I killed a rat the other day by punching him to pieces, and feel a weight of blood upon me to this hour.

This money I got by cleaning gentlemen's shoes and drawing boots, by catching musk-rats and minks, raising potatoes and carrots, &c. and by fishing in the night, and at odd spells.

The other he pinned down by the throat and shook as a terrier shakes a rat.

Then the stork suddenly asked the geese if they had seen the gray rats who were marching toward Glimminge castle.

" "Come, cat, eat the rat.

the Butcher He that charmed the rats! OTHERS

Consequently, the sport is more like hunting water-rats than shooting birds.

"Never mind!" cried "Rats."

She told him that the owls would destroy the rats and mice that bothered him in the barn, but if he hunted them, they would go to the woods.

" "And therefore your Holiness has brought these rats upon us, enlisted, I nothing doubt, in the infernal regions?" "Precisely so: Plutonic, necyomantic, Lemurian rats, kindly lent by the Prince of Darkness for the occasion, and come dripping from Styx to squeak and gibber in the Capitol.

Once only was the silence broken, by Maxton chasing young "Rats" from the gymnasium into the big school, shouting, "I'll lick you, you little villain!"

" "Found a dozen dead rats.

It was enclosed within a high wall, which had been built, not for the purpose, as you might suppose, of preventing the house from getting away, but for that of keeping out rats and foxes; for there were birds to be preserved from these destructive animals.

How cheerful my feelings, when that man of shreds and patches fell prostrate in the sawdust, where he lay grovelling until the next revolution of his noble steed, when the animal caught him up by the baggiest portion of the trousers and carried him round the arena as a terrier might a rat!

They were hardy, contented and fearless; and within a few years they had become so powerful that they undertook to drive the black rats out of Malmö.

It went back to its sewer, and, I suppose, told the other rats how kind Louise had been to it, for after that they came to her cell without fear.

It is almost impossible to comprehend why the black rats did not muster themselves into a great, united war-expedition to exterminate the gray rats, while these were still few in numbers.

They dragged the dead rat through the hedge and into a position commanded by the windows of the house, and incidentally came upon a cluster of giant earwigs in the ditch.

But women are all heart, and would love a rat." Maud smiled, but she answered not.

And there came wand'ring by at last, The same thing, pit-a-pat, I found as 'cross the room it past, The cat had got a rat.

"Hello there, Madam Weasel, come out without delay, or I shall notify all the rats in the country.

I smoke and shoot water-rats, and watch the younger generation making the same mistakes that we made in our time.

"Oh, bother it all!" sighed "Rats; this is nothing but a procession.

"You heard rats," chuckled Fat Jakey.