Oral history
Pat remembers the chap with the tame rats and the night they escaped...
There was a chap that used to have tame rats.
D. Count Maximillian Lizard the Third.
That’s it, and erm, he was taking them back one night across to wherever he kept them and the cages dropped and they all got out.
D. Hmmm
And those rats were in my house.
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