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Cumberland Vane exploded with a detonation of oaths; his face was transfigured with fury and contempt, and yet in some odd way he did not seem specially angry with Turnbull. "But Lord bless us and save us!" he gasped, at length; "I'm not here as an official at all. I'm here as a patient. The cursed pack of rat-catching chemists all say that I've lost my wits."
These are the customers who should be looked well after, for they are the sportsmen who do not consider expense, though of course there are others who are just the opposite. Further, Rat-catching is a business in which one is not called upon to allow credit. It is all a ready-money trade, and as there is not much competition, the Rat-catcher can command a good price for his work.
Thus, starved and stunted on the intellectual side, it is not surprising that Charles Darwin's energies were directed towards athletic amusements and sport, to such an extent, that even his kind and sagacious father could be exasperated into telling him that "he cared for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching." In 1825, Dr.
"'I am willing, little Miss Kitten said. 'What are we to do after we go into business? "'Why, when your mother takes you into the pantry to-night to teach you rat-catching, you are to warn me. As soon as your mother has gone out, you must call me with three mews, and I will come. "Well, all this was done as young Mr. Rat planned, and when old Mrs.
"When he left school," he says, "I was considered by all my masters and by my father as a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification, my father once said to me, 'You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and to all your family." Harriet Martineau was thought very dull.
Such were the new hopes with which the successful rat-catching had inspired me, and my mind was restored to a state of confidence and equanimity that had long been stranger to it. I had one apprehension that still slightly troubled me, and that was about getting through the cask. Even when I had entered the cask on the second occasion, it was as much as I could do to drag myself out of it again.
Scarcely knowing what to say, I made an observation at random. ‘You show, by your own conduct,’ said I, ‘that there are other things worth following besides dog-fighting. You practise rat-catching and badger-baiting as well.’ The dog-fancier eyed me with supreme contempt. ‘Your friend here,’ said he, ‘might well call you a new one.
Fox-hunting, hare-hunting, rabbit-hunting, cat-hunting, rat-catching, badger-baiting all wild, seasonable, and legitimate sports followed; and the chairman having run through his list, and thinking Jorrocks was getting rather mellow, resolved to try the soothing system on him for a subscription, the badgering of the morning not having answered.
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