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He had got the lad a pudding-headed fellow by the ear and was saying, "What? Lost again smothered o' wit." Another time I remember hearing him call the village rat-catcher by saying, "Come hither, thou three-days-and-three-nights, thou," alluding, as I afterwards learned, to the rat-catcher's periods of intoxication; but I will tell no more of such trifles.
Mary lost her senses completely, but she recognized him always, and whenever she saw him she crooked her fingers like the claws of a cat, and showed her teeth. Why she did so could only be guessed: perhaps she had seen more than the rat-catcher, but she never said anything.
"My daughter!" cried the rat-catcher; "my beautiful golden daughter!" "Oh no!" laughed the gnome. "Guess again!" "My own weight in gold!" cried the rat-catcher, in a frenzy; but the gnome would not close the bargain till he had wrung from the rat-catcher the promise of his last penny.
By profession he was a rat-catcher, and he had an intimate knowledge of the habits and frailties of all the small predatory animals of Great Britain, and knew well how to lure them to their destruction.
You will see by what I have said respecting these coursings, etc., that the Rat-catcher has plenty of work to supply so many live rats, and he has also to mix with company high and low. He also sometimes experiences difficulties in travelling on the railway. I have often entered an empty third-class carriage, sent my dog under the seat, and put the Rat cage there also.
The uncle and Leggatt had finished washing up and were seated, smoking, while the damp duster dried at the fire. 'About what time was it, said Pyecroft to Leggatt, 'when our Mr. Morshed began to talk about uncles? 'When he came back to the bar, after he'd changed into those rat-catcher clothes, said Leggatt. 'That's right. "Pye," said he, "have you an uncle?" "I have," I says.
It happened, while his passions were in full force, that a rat-catcher arrived at Mowbray Hall; which at that time was greatly infested by the large Norway rats. The man had the art of taking them alive, and was accordingly employed by the Squire.
And the head of fire disappeared, vanished in the darkness, while the passage in front of it lit up, as the result of the change which the rat-catcher had made in his dark lantern. Before, so as not to scare the rats in front of him, he had turned his dark lantern on himself, lighting up his own head; now, to hasten their flight, he lit the dark space in front of him.
Their home was a dirty little cabin; but they were not so poor as they seemed, for every night the rat-catcher took the rats he had cleared out of one house and let them go at the door of another, so that on the morrow he might be sure of a fresh job.
So he turned round, and struck his sword upon the floor, and asked me whether I was one of them `Who are you then? and I all my courage went away, and I answered, I was a poor rat-catcher. `A rat-catcher, are you? Well then, Mr Rat-catcher, when you are killing rats, if you find a nest of young ones, don't you kill them too?
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