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Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher

Ike Matthews

Book Overview: 

No big city without rats, particularly back in Ike Matthews' time. The professional rat catcher explains to us in this little volume the best way to catch and exterminate those little rodents.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .t at a time; have a net set at the other end.  The best way at the catching end is to have a long sheet net about a yard wide, and the full length of the boards that are up, for sometimes under the boards the Rats can get out of one joist into another, and if you use the long net you can catch them whichever joist they bolt at.

Now we will suppose you are ferreting a seven-storey building, which might occupy three or four days.  If you have ferreted two stories the first day, during the night the Rats that have not been ferreted on the lower stories may get back again to the top storey.

How to prevent this happening I will give you a plan of my own, which I don’t think any Rat-catcher but myself has ever employed.  The course of action—a rather expensive one I admit—is the following: While you have the boards up you must go to the druggist and get two shillings’ worth of cayenne pepper, and put p. 14it into a pepper dus. . . Read More

Community Reviews

let me express the hope that this book will prove instructive, entertaining, and profitable to my readers, inasmuch as I have endeavoured to make it so to the best of my ability and within the somewhat limited scope and sphere of a Rat-catcher’s calling. Of course, I might have made the narrative p

A good read

I read this book out of curiosity and a soon as he mentioned Pendleton, which is an area of Salford near Manchester, my interest was piqued as I know it well.
A good read about a past profession, interesting and informative. A down to earth narrative.

Fascinating. Matthews respect for his rodent enemy is evident.

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A great-short read for fun! A man's book that opens the window to a simpler time when honest men did honest work

Candid account of rat catching at the beginning of XX century. A good insight on how animal rights have progressed, life in general has improved and how "cunning", as the author prefers to describe them, rats are.

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