tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post977772698356669573..comments2024-03-27T18:20:38.176-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Unusual booksMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-1279361638038450832013-06-23T03:26:49.933-05:002013-06-23T03:26:49.933-05:00Well, he's right there!Well, he's right there!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-1913688271566728602013-01-17T16:50:01.640-06:002013-01-17T16:50:01.640-06:00One I encountered recently (while looking for free...One I encountered recently (while looking for free project Gutenberg books for my kindle) was "Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-Catcher,<br />after 25 Years’ Experience" by Ike Matthews<br /><br />It is full of wonderful Victorian prose about killing rats. For example:<br /><br />"In the first place my advice is—never poison Rats in any enclosed buildings whatever. Why? Simply because the Rats that you poison are Drain Rats, or what you call Black Rats, and you can depend upon it that the Rats that you poison will not get back into the drains, but die under the floor between the laths and plaster, and the consequence is that in a few days the stench that will arise will be most obnoxious. And there is nothing more injurious than the smell of a decomposed Rat."nolanddahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708768497461983779noreply@blogger.com