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... rats into the tents of the biggest army and they ruined it by chewing the leather of their shield straps . Rats are unacknowledged legislators that rule the world . They started the Black Death that wiped out half Europe in the Middle ...
... rats into the tents of the biggest army and they ruined it by chewing the leather of their shield straps . Rats are unacknowledged legislators that rule the world . They started the Black Death that wiped out half Europe in the Middle ...
Page 221
... rats away . But the people refused him the bread they had promised as his fee , called him a trickster . So the Pied Piper sent back the rats , but charmed away the peoples ' children to inherit the innocence their parents had known ...
... rats away . But the people refused him the bread they had promised as his fee , called him a trickster . So the Pied Piper sent back the rats , but charmed away the peoples ' children to inherit the innocence their parents had known ...
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... rat pits spreading below , the world - width of black mud surrounded on every far distance by dim faces of spec- tators in thrall to the rats laughing and waiting for his fall . He hoped there was no question of falling . He would not ...
... rat pits spreading below , the world - width of black mud surrounded on every far distance by dim faces of spec- tators in thrall to the rats laughing and waiting for his fall . He hoped there was no question of falling . He would not ...
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