rat-eating

Updated: May 10, 2025

Lynch and his rat-eating guide just as long as they're game to follow, and if they follow me two weeks I'll take 'em to my mine and tell 'em to help themselves. Now that's sporting, ain't it? Because the Sockdolager ain't staked and she's the richest hole I've struck." "Yes, it's sporting," she admitted, "but why don't you stake it? Are you afraid they'll take it away from you?"

Dane Coolidge - Wunpost

Certainly I thought, at the time, that a sweeter morsel had never gone down my throat, and no longer felt wonder at what books had told me about the rat-eating Laplanders. The aspect of my affairs had now undergone a complete change for the better.

Mayne Reid - The Boy Tar