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"We would indeed be glad to have a few," rejoined the teacher, "but they are difficult to be got. The hogs, we find, are very good rat-killers, but they do not seem to be able to keep the numbers down. I have heard that they are better than cats." As the teacher said this, his good-natured black face was wrinkled with a smile of merriment. Observing that I had noticed it, he said
The "rat-trap" was set. Where were the rat-killers? I could see many a neck craned, and many a face lifted up, looking toward the west, for their terrible allies of the air. But they came not. There was a dead pause. It was the stillness before the thunder. Some of the troops advanced toward the barricade.
Women have been borne out from an old-world hospital, two in one coffin, that the horrors of their prison-house might not be known, while the very men who were discussing the treatment of the disease were stupidly conveying the infection from bed to bed, as rat-killers carry their poisons from one household to another. N. E. Quar. Jour. of Medicine and Surgery, April, 1843.
"We would, indeed, be glad to have a few," rejoined the teacher, "but they are difficult to be got. The hogs, we find, are very good rat-killers, but they do not seem to be able to keep the numbers down. I have heard that they are better than cats." As the teacher said this, his good-natured black face was wrinkled with a smile of merriment. Observing that I had noticed it, he said:
"We would indeed be glad to have a few," rejoined the teacher, "but they are difficult to be got. The hogs, we find, are very good rat-killers; but they do not seem to be able to keep the numbers down. I have heard that they are better than cats." As the teacher said this, his good-natured black face was wrinkled with a smile of merriment.
Women have been borne out from an old-world hospital, two in one coffin, that the horrors of their prison-house might not be known, while the very men who were discussing the treatment of the disease were stupidly conveying the infection from bed to bed, as rat-killers carry their poisons from one household to another. N. E. Quar. Jour. of Medicine and Surgery, April, 1843.
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