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  • Will UK residents perhaps be issued with suburban rat-traps, rodent poison, free prescriptions to deal with salmonella and Weil's disease etc, or even air rifles if we are to deal with the Governments mess ourselves?

    Gordon's rat problem. An open letter from Southport author, Pat Regan Thatsnews 2009

  • Will UK residents perhaps be issued with suburban rat-traps, rodent poison, free prescriptions to deal with salmonella and Weil's disease etc, or even air rifles if we are to deal with the Governments mess ourselves?

    Archive 2009-04-01 Thatsnews 2009

  • I heard on the radio earlier this evening that a large number of rat-traps set up on St Kilda have caught no rats, so it looks as if none got ashore.

    What's in the news AYDIN 2008

  • Many of our rat-traps proved thus weak in the spring, and snapped too slowly, specially on Sundays.

    With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

  • He drilled savages, shot hippopotamuses, mended watches and musical boxes for black chiefs, patched his own clothes and made clothes for some of his men, invented rat-traps and machines for making rockets, tamed baby lions and baby hippopotamuses, cleaned guns, raided the camps of slavers, nursed the sick, and fed the hungry.

    The Story of General Gordon Jeanie Lang

  • Has Peace made another raid on the hen-house with poison or rat-traps?

    At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown

  • 'Shall we, too, be as dogs cobbling shoes, or as the heathen who sell rat-traps, peddle milk-pails, and keep Thanksgiving?

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Thin red gashes that suggested rat-traps instead of kisses.

    Here are Ladies James Stephens 1916

  • A number also had grown disgustingly rich from patenting rat-traps or shoe-buttons.

    The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Nor did he know a single soul in the business of inventing rat-traps or shoe-buttons.

    The Auction Block Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

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