The Rambles of a Rat
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A. L. O. E.. The Rambles of a Rat
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE FAMILY OF RATS
CHAPTER II. A CLAP-TRAP DISCOVERY
CHAPTER III. POORER THAN RATS
CHAPTER IV. HOW I MADE A FRIEND
CHAPTER V. HOW BOB MET WITH AN ADVENTURE
CHAPTER VI. HOW I VISITED THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
CHAPTER VII. FINDING RELATIONS
CHAPTER VIII. HOW I HEARD OF OLD NEIGHBOURS
CHAPTER IX. HOW WE FOUND A FEAST
CHAPTER X. THE WANT OF A DENTIST
CHAPTER XI. A REMOVAL
CHAPTER XII. A NEW ROAD TO FAME
CHAPTER XIII. HOW I SET OUT ON MY VOYAGE
CHAPTER XIV. A TERRIBLE WORD
CHAPTER XV. FIRST VIEW OF ST. PETERSBURG
CHAPTER XVI. A RUSSIAN KITCHEN
CHAPTER XVII. A RAMBLE OVER ST. PETERSBURG
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW WE WERE TRANSPORTED
CHAPTER XIX. A STORM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER XX. CATCH HIM – DEAD OR ALIVE!
CHAPTER XXI. A NEW KIND OF WATCH-DOG
CHAPTER XXII. THE FARMER AND HIS BRIDE
CHAPTER XXIII. A PEEP THROUGH THE ROSES
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My very earliest recollection is of running about in a shed adjoining a large warehouse, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Poplar, and close to the River Thames, which thereabouts is certainly no silver stream.
A merry life we led of it in that shed, my seven brothers and I! It was a sort of palace of rubbish, a mansion of odds and ends, where rats might frolic and gambol, and play at hide-and-seek, to their hearts’ content. We had nibbled a nice little way into the warehouse above mentioned; and there, every night, we feasted at our ease, growing as sleek and plump as any rats in the United Kingdom.
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“That’s nothing but a blue dye obtained from a plant,” observed Furry, an old, blind rat, who in his days had travelled far, and seen much of the world, and had reflected upon what he had viewed far more than is common with a rat. Indeed, he passed amongst us for a philosopher, and I had learnt not a little from his experience; for he delighted in talking over his travels, and but for a little testiness of temper, would have been a very agreeable companion. He very frequently joined our party; indeed, his infirmities obliged him to do so, as he could not have lived without assistance. But I must now return to Brisk, and his catalogue of the cargo.
“Opium – ”
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