Arrived there he turned round; the rats were following.
Rats gnawed the fingers of the wounded who were too weak to drive them away.
Some rats in the wall began to fight and bite each other, and squeak and scramble.
A cat was tearing at the door, and there was a sound of gnawing rats beneath the hearth-stone.
hop! without hesitating, the rats took the leap, swam straight to the funnel, plunged in head foremost and disappeared.
'All your rats took a jump into the river yesterday,' said he to the counsellors, 'and I guarantee that not one of them comes back.
There are spiders, and rats, and balky mules, and Germans, and it doesn't do a bit of good to waste words fussing because they are here.
Then there were flying squirrels, and kangaroo rats, gentle and trustful, and a badger whose temper was short but whose nature was fundamentally friendly.