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Updated: May 29, 2025
A pair of grinning jaws crashed against the outlet, and snapped within a hair's-breadth of his nose. It was his first sight of a terrier, and he realized that to break cover was certain death. Death, indeed, was very busy outside. Every minute a dog's yelp, the shout of its master, and the dull thud of a bludgeon, told plainly enough the tale of some unhappy rodent's dash for freedom.
He would have risen to fly, only he dared not stand up. The children laughed and danced round him as he crawled. "Look at the rats, Paddy! look at the rats!" cried Dick. "They're in front of me!" cried the afflicted one, making a vicious grab at an imaginary rodent's tail. "Ran dan the bastes! now they're gone. Musha, but it's a fool I'm makin' of meself." "Go on, Paddy," said Dick; "don't stop.
Deliberately he relieved Dudley of the towel-roller, throwing his companion the knotted towel in exchange. "Where's the brute now?" he asked grimly. A scuffling noise in a tin bath suspended from the cork-cemented roof of the cabin betrayed the rodent's temporary hiding-place. Both men looked first at the bath and then at each other.
Levelling the roller like a billiard cue the subaltern prepared to make a thrust and administer the coup de grâce, but he had forgotten that he had not yet found his sea-legs. A roll of the ship made him lose his balance, and he pitched head foremost into the rodent's retreat.
Suma saw it just in time to raise a massive paw in order to avoid contact with the lowly creature, but when she lowered the great foot it was directly upon the rodent's tail for it had stopped as soon as it had reached the protection of the canes.
Hungry, perhaps, or perhaps merely yielding to the paranoid fury that was a normal component of the rattish mind, it squealed its defiance to the rat that was not a rat. It advanced, baring its teeth. The rat that was not a rat became suddenly motionless, its sharp rodent's nose pointed directly at the enemy.
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