I have just been making it tidy, for we had a little ratting last night, one of my dogs against Sir James Collette's, fifty rats each; my dog beat him by three quarters of a minute.
His entry was hailed by a chorus of barking from dogs of all sorts and sizes, from the bulldog down to the ratting terrier.
The hedge is just what it should be, and if it had been made for ratting it could not be better.
Would stay out till sundown, in the hope that by then Jennifer might have seen fit to exchange the manly joys of ratting for his more prosaic duties at the ferry, and so save her from further association with his displeasing deputy.
There had been ratting epidemics on the Ridge; but robbery of a mate by a mate had never occurred before.
The gossip of Jun and the ratting was still the latest news of the Ridge; but Mr. Armitage appeared to know as much of that as anybody.
When the storm the ratting had caused died down, life on the Ridge went its even course again.
If there's a policeman about, and a man starts ratting and is caught, he gets a couple of months.
Oft-times a party of gentlemen have sent for me in the summer, having arranged with me to bring four or five ferrets and Ratting appliances, and we have gone 50 miles up the country.
He is also prepared to break dogs and puppies to ferreting and Ratting on reasonable terms.
These things do not stand under algebraical laws, as though ratting to the right hand could balance a ratting to the left, and leave the guilt = 0.
Not even anyone to go ratting with," he said, with a tender little smile.
Fancy spending hours listening to the drivel he talks when she might be ratting with us,"-- which somewhat remarkable comparison would no doubt have rather astonished the Oxford B.
