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Updated: May 15, 2025
"If we found rats coming from a rat-hole," said Tommy very quietly, "and ferrets went down and didn't come up, we'd gas them." "And so," Denham told him, "so would the Golden City." He pointed to a boxed double paragraph news story under leaded twenty-point headline: "Poisonous Fog Kills Wild Life." The story was not alarming.
As to his laundress, she lived among the coal-waggons and Thames watermen for there were Thames watermen at that time in some unknown rat-hole by the river, down lanes and alleys on the other side of the Strand.
Downing knelt on the floor beside the basket, and dug like a terrier at a rat-hole. At last he made a dive, and, with an exclamation of triumph, rose to his feet. In his hand he held a boot. "Put those back again, Smith," he said.
He sat staring above it at the iron visage of the first selectman, who finally grew restive under this espionage. "Say, look-a-here, Pote Tate," he growled, levelling flaming eyes across the table, "if you think you're goin' to set there lookin' at me like a Chessy cat watchin' a rat-hole, you and me is goin' to have trouble, and have it sudden and have it vi'lent!"
"Come!" repeated the provost, "the gap is wide enough. Enter three abreast, as at the breach of Pontoise. Let us make an end of it, death of Mahom! I will make two pieces of the first man who draws back!" Placed between the provost and the mother, both threatening, the soldiers hesitated for a moment, then took their resolution, and advanced towards the Rat-Hole.
'Be he what he may, he is a fine fellow, and I am glad he hath escaped. Do thou but find out for my lord Charles here the cursed rat-hole by which he goes and comes, and I will gladly forgive thee all the trouble thou hast brought into my sober house.
'He disappeared in the Scotch troubles in '45, Sir George reluctantly explained, 'was disinherited in favour of my father, sir, and has not since been heard from. The attorney grew rigid with alertness; he was like nothing so much as a dog, expectant at a rat-hole. 'Attainted? he said. 'No! said Sir George. 'Outlawed? 'No. The attorney collapsed: no rat in the hole.
"Look then!" said the recluse, with a sneer. "Thrust your head through the window." The executioner observed the mother's finger-nails and dared not. "Make haste!" shouted Tristan, who had just ranged his troops in a circle round the Rat-Hole, and who sat on his horse beside the gallows. Rennet returned once more to the provost in great embarrassment.
Observing the fall in his crockery, and the general confusion of things, the Colonel quietly asked, 'What's to pay? I said nothing, but burst into a fit of laughter at the awkward fix the Overseer was in. That gentleman also said nothing, but looked as if he would like to find vent through a rat-hole or a window-pane.
I want to know whether it seems true; whether it will seem true to a judge and jury. You have thought the matter over, of course; you have gone through it in your own mind from beginning to end now please to go over it to me." The little man whipped out a note-book, leaned forward in his chair, and looked all eye and ear, like a terrier watching at a rat-hole.
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