“Because it isn’t half big enough—not a quarter big enough,” I said; “but I wish to catch that rat, and I want you to make me a big trap-like this, only four times as large, and with a very strong spring.”
“Eh?”
“I want to set that trap, and I want to catch that, great cowardly rat, and I want you to make me a trap that will hold him.”
“Eh?”
“Don’t you understand?” I said, looking at him meaningly as he stood wiping the perspiration from his brow with the back of his hand.
“Yow want to set a trap to catch the big rat as comes and makes a hole in the mester’s sack.”
“Yes,” I said. “I want to catch him.”
“What! Here about the works?”
“Yes,” I said. “Now do you see?”
Poof!