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Likely dogs are trained until they do not bark, and become entirely accustomed to the sound of firing; they are then pronounced "aptes a faire campagne" or "fit for service," receive their livret militaire, or certificates for not every chance dog is allowed in the trenches and are despatched to the trenches on a rat-hunting campaign.
"Why, there isn't one of my toughs that wouldn't go rat-hunting for a quarter of that. If it's any one in these parts, twelve hours is all I want." "It isn't!" The Irishman's face fell. "Some swell, I suppose? Fifth Avenue way and the swagger parts, eh?" Fischer assented silently. His host poured himself out some whisky and drank it as though it were water.
It is a physiological peculiarity which leads the Greyhound to chase its prey by sight, that enables the Beagle to track it by the scent, that impels the Terrier to its rat-hunting propensity, and that leads the Retriever to its habit of retrieving.
Graham went straight from school to the potato patches where the men were rat-hunting, and did not get home till dark. I believe one hundred and fifty rats were caught. He and Mr. Keytel were invited into Henry Green's hut, where his daughter and Mrs. Sam Swain did the honours. Just after supper Mrs. Lavarello brought in Mrs. Joe Glass, one of the new-comers.
He was so fond of the water that he became a rapid, untiring swimmer; and the boys trained him, in intervals of rat-hunting, to dive to the bottom of the river and pick up a white pebble thrown from the bank.
It is a physiological peculiarity which leads the Greyhound to chase its prey by sight that enables the Beagle to track it by the scent that impels the Terrier to its rat-hunting propensity and that leads the Retriever to its habit of retrieving.
There is no saying how long the action would have lasted, but in his energy he knocked away the support of a shelf behind him and a small cask of large nails, taking him in rear, sent him sprawling on the deck and routed him. This misadventure did not, however, terminate the war. On the contrary, rat-hunting became a favourite pastime during the voyage down the Red Sea.
It is a physiological peculiarity which leads the Greyhound to chase its prey by sight, that enables the Beagle to track it by the scent, that impels the Terrier to its rat-hunting propensity, and that leads the Retriever to its habit of retrieving.
When he saw it, he began rubbing his hands with delight, for he guessed well enough that his daughter's tears had made it; and the dust in it told him how surely now she was being turned into gold. And now the rat-catcher was the richest man in the world: all his traps were made of gold, and when he went rat-hunting he rode in a gilded coach drawn by twelve hundred of the finest and largest rats.
It was one of the expedients that lasted longest in keeping up the spirits of the men. The rat-hunting referred to in the foregoing "summery" was not a mere fiction of Buzzby's brain. It was a veritable fact. Notwithstanding the extreme cold of this inhospitable climate, the rats in the ship increased to such a degree that at last they became a perfect nuisance.
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