Rat-catcher

Manybooks is offering a free book from 1898 called Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher After 25 Years 'Experience, by Ike Matthews.

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My Rat-catcher is not sufficiently arrogant to suppose for

A Miscellany of Men 1905

The Rat-catcher is not under this delusion; any more than Paul Veronese thought that very good men have luminous rings round their heads; any more than the Pope thinks that Christ washed the feet of the twelve in

A Miscellany of Men 1905

Many people think that a Rat-catcher is favoured if they give him permission to catch Rats on their farms or round the banks of their corn or wheat fields.

Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898

Most farmers will send you word when they are threshing their corn, and then the value of the Rats are worth the day's work to the Rat-catcher.

Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898

A Rat-catcher had been there but without a dog, and when I arrived two hours afterwards my dog made a set, and commenced scratching amongst the old chaff left at the bottom of the stack, and to the astonishment of myself and the farmer I pulled out of the hole where the dog was scratching 73 live Rats!

Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898

The Rat-catcher has many temptations to dishonest conducts, for instance, when Rat-catching on a farm or private estate where there are numerous rabbits and game.

Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898

This is all right as far as it goes, but when one comes to consider the yearly expenses of the Rat-catcher it will be found that they are very heavy.

Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898

The owners of these shops will not go to the expense of having Rats caught, nor will they let us go into their shops at midnight; therefore the result is the Rat-catcher in his trapping and ferreting is limited to these two places, and all he can do is to catch some and drive the rest into the hardware shop.

Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898

At such times the Rat-catcher must not leave the remaining half, no, not for half-an-hour throughout the whole night, for if he does the Rats will run out.

Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Matthews, Ike 1898