The Revelations of a Rat-catcher. 



PAET I. 



HOW TO CLEAE EATS FEOM WAEE- 

 HOUSES, OFFICES, STOEEEOOMS, &c. 



IN the first place my advice is never poison 

 Eats in any enclosed buildings whatever. 

 Why ? Simply because the Eats that you 

 poison are Drain Eats, or what you call Black 

 Eats, and you can depend upon it that the 

 Eats 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 

 Eat. 



Having had a long experience in Manchester 

 I am quite sure of this. As an instance, I 

 remember a private house where I was engaged 

 catching Eats under a floor with ferrets.^ I 

 went as far as possible on my belly under the 

 floor with two candles- in my hands, and I saw 



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