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"His Lordship became finally uninterested in proposals to pour money down other people's drains; he had invented, or discovered, a culvert quite his own."

I made one more discovery just before we cleared the infested area. A patch of fur caught my eye between stems just to the right of the path we had hacked out. I parted the lower leaves of the bushes and looked more closely. It was a sizeable rat - at least, it had been; now it was no more than the husk of a rat. Dried, furred skin, empty, and shrivelled over a skeleton that had been picked quite clean ...