After that, there were no more rats for
a long time at Tabitha Twitchit's.


As for Farmer Potatoes, he has been
driven nearly distracted. There are rats,
and rats, and rats in his barn! They eat
up the chicken food, and steal the oats and
bran, and make holes in the meal bags.

And they are all descended from Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Whiskers--children and
grand-children and great great grand-children.

There is no end to them!


Moppet and Mittens have grown up into
very good rat-catchers.

They go out rat-catching in the village,
and they find plenty of employment. They
charge so much a dozen, and earn their
living very comfortably.


They hang up the rats' tails in a row or
the barn door, to show how many they have