Show THE RATS OF how and where they alivs their trials and pleasures mcw 11 ork arau and ernrest Er prest island said a native who is an infallible authority on all things in new and old york is in by 1000 GW creatures mostly rats 11 rat baiting contests are of frequent occurrence in all eastern rat catcher and dog fancier of this att anew I 1 eat an ingest of the species in could select rats oil t of a cellar w aich lie ilai to daily that would give the best dog ill the world a hard fight ile thinks that the scotch terrier is the best rat dog the black and tan is fully a quick but not as strong the short legged ungainly creature is stronger si ronger than either and slower their strong laws end the life of a rat so easily that it robs the sport of its interest the genuino gotham rodent has still a few retiring habits and prefers haunts like it hermit but tie certainly believes in fearless publicity you me etmore tats in the open streets in now york than Y in london or even parts the paradise af the r cc IM ties of riverside tie in and around now york alfrord luxurious board and lodging for our nimble fellow citizens lie tween the rock and roil and the pier piles the rat colony flourish and keep up the population y just like other natives and the infusion of foreign blood has helped to the rare intellectual qualities of the e I 1 each river and ampil ct lerat R tg the country in spring carries af adventurers from now york to brighten up the rustics in wa back county eab foreign ship that anchors in the north iziver debanks debarks a band of sturdy immigrants from Eur which in turn are supplied from the interior th hanoverian rat Is of noble some say of ryal lineage and has bad ever a lions I 1 baro in pop elating our free and open c li tr the rat Is by choice a tr yit ile Is not a teetotaler or at least he insists on experiments be fore lie decides watch near one of the bonded stores where wines and liquors are landed soar aroun d the malting houses and brewer fea and you will see A sleek coated bright ey ed tippler sally forth reckless of da nger as full as a keg and as as a president ile shoots ahead haary c or a low paces stops dead and lift sophis now to sniff the breeze then you will see his sides swell out rou as if he was bursting with jouit all of a sudden he ca reens over to the left and only after a severe rat atal effort does lie square himself tip for other trot homeward |