Maurice senses a voice which tries to enter his mind and causes the rats to start behaving like normal rats ("keekees") to the dismay of Dangerous Beans, who is also depressed to learn that Mr Bunnsy Has an Adventure is just a children's story. The rat catchers arrive, lock Keith and Malicia away and take Hamnpork away for coursing. They also discover cages of rats who are being bred for coursing. They decide to investigate the rat catcher's house, where they meet with Darktan's gang and find that the rat catchers have been hiding the food which was supposedly eaten by rats. Maurice reveals that the rat catchers have been using bootlaces as fake rat tails. Keith and Maurice meet Malicia, the mayor's daughter, who believes herself to be the heroine of a fairy tale. The townspeople have already been complaining about rats and a lack of food, but as Darktan leads the Trap Disposal Squad around, they find the rat tunnels are empty except for traps and poison. The gang agree to carry out the scam one last time in the town of Bad Blintz, Überwald. Hamnpork, the rats' nominal leader, does not get on with Maurice and there are rumours that Darktan is contemplating taking over as leader. The gang are not entirely harmonious - Dangerous Beans, a nearly-blind rat who acts as a guru, dreams of starting a rat civilisation based on the children's book Mr Bunnsy Has an Adventure, and along with the scribe Peaches, has ethical concerns about their scam. They inflict a plague of rats on every town they visit which only ends when Keith is paid to lead the rats away. The rats gained human intelligence by eating rubbish from the Unseen University, while Maurice became intelligent after eating one of them. Maurice the cat operates a money-making scam with a group of rats and Keith, a teenage boy. Terry Pratchett leads readers from tale to tail in a darkly imaginative and fiendishly entertaining story, the first for young readers set in the Discworld universe. Something very, very bad is waiting in the cellars. For someone there is playing a different tune. And everyone knows the stories about rats and pipers.īut when they reach the stricken town of Bad Blintz, the little con suddenly goes down the drain. He's found a stupid-looking kid who plays a pipe, and he has his very own plague of rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no longer think of them as 'lunch'. Maurice, a streetwise tomcat, has the perfect money-making scam.
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