50 DAYS IN DOVE DALE 



got himself hooked by a foot ; he managed 

 to break the gut above the flies, and got away 

 trailing the flies after him. In this way he 

 scrambled over the side of a boat which was 

 lying at the lake side ; here one of the hooks 

 caught in the side of the ' boat, and the poor 

 rat was held suspended over the water, he 

 too must have been drowned as well as 

 hanged. 





