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Updated: May 29, 2025
The door is shut; the name is written down; the charge is made: Vagrancy, assaulting an officer, resisting arrest. An inner door is opened. "What have you got in number nine?" asks the captain in charge. "Chuck full," replies the turnkey. "Well, number seven?" These were the numbers of cells. "The rats'll eat him up in number seven." "How about number ten?"
"'Twas Rastus Young," replied Mr. Chase promptly. Even the Captain was obliged to laugh, although he declared that Mr. Young's constancy was a proof that the firm's prospects were good. "Rats'll always leave a sinkin' ship," he said, "and if Zoeth and me was goin' under Rat Young would be the first to quit."
Cyril, with great presence of mind, lit a candle and turned off the gas at the main. 'The rats'll have a better chance in the dark, he said. The mewing had ceased. Every one listened in breathless silence. We all know that cats eat rats it is one of the first things we read in our little brown reading books; but all those cats eating all those rats it wouldn't bear thinking of.
For an instant the rats squealed viciously as they wore struck by the sharp edges of the slate, then they seemed to confer together for a moment or two, then they spread out like a fan and began moving toward the two boys. "Now you've done it!" cried Tommy. "If you don't get out of. There in about a second, the rats'll eat your legs off!"
And then, the rats'll get in at the roof, and up through the floor, and eat 'em all up, and my work too the grand new three-pound coat that I've been stitching at this ten days, for the sum of one half-crown sterling and don't I wish I may see the money? Come on, quick; there are the rats, close behind!"
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