“Oh, bless you, we have tried everything—poison, traps, broken glass. We caught a few, but I would give the world to have them all caught.”
“I can give you a receipt which will enable you to have them almost all caught in a few days.”
“The deuce you could!” said he, coming and sitting opposite to me. “Tell me how it is done—I shall be so much obliged to you; but I must go and put something on first, I am so cold.” As he said this, I perceived that the skylight over his head was open.
“Oh, never mind that; it won’t take two minutes to tell you—listen to me.”
“So I will,” he said.
“The place where you keep your cheese would be the very spot to make the trial. The thing is quite easy. Have your cheese and candles removed.”
“So I will; but I wish you would let me put a coat on—I am getting so very cold.”
“Never mind about that; I shall not keep you a minute—listen to me.”
“So I will.”
“When the cabin is perfectly empty, have it cleaned and well scrubbed.”