But we had jumped him and were determined to catch him, or "burst a boiler." After chasing him backwards and forwards, the rat finally got tired of this foolishness and started for his hole.
But a rat's tail is the last that goes in the hole, and as he went in we made a grab for his tail.

Well, tail hold broke, and we held the skin of his tail in our hands.

But we were determined to have that rat.

After hard work we caught him.

We skinned him, washed and salted him, buttered and peppered him, and fried him.