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Samuel Whiskers was puffing and out of breath . Anna Maria was still arguing in shrill tones . She seemed to know her way , and she seemed to have a quantity of luggage . I am sure I never gave her leave to borrow my wheel - barrow ! They went into the barn , and hauled their parcels with a bit of string to the top of the haymow . After that , there were no more rats for a long time at Tabitha Twitchit's . As for Farmer Potatoes , he has been driven nearly distracted . There are rats , and rats , and rats in his barn ! They eat up the chicken food , and steal the oats and bran , and make holes in the meal bags . And they are all descended from Mr . and Mrs . Samuel Whiskers — children and grand - children and great great grand - children . There is no end to them ! Moppet and Mittens have grown up into very good rat - catchers . They go out rat - catching in the village , and they find plenty of employment . They charge so much a dozen , and earn their living very comfortably . They hang up the rats ' tails in a row or the barn door , to show how many they have caught — dozens and dozens of them . But Tom Kitten has always been afraid of a rat ; he never durst face anything that is bigger than — A Mouse . THE END THE TALE OF MR . TOD I HAVE made many books about well - behaved people . Now , for a change , I am going to make a story about two disagreeable people , called Tommy Brock and Mr . Tod . Nobody could call Mr . Tod " nice . " The rabbits could not bear him ; they could smell him half a mile off . He was of a wandering habit and he had foxey whiskers ; they never knew where he would be next . One day he was living in a stick - house in the coppice , causing terror to the family of old Mr . Benjamin Bouncer . Next day he moved into a pollard willow near the lake , frightening the wild ducks and the water rats . In winter and early spring he might generally be found in an earth amongst the rocks at the top of Bull Banks , under Oatmeal Crag . He had half a dozen houses , but he was seldom at home . The houses were not always empty when Mr . Tod moved OUT ; because sometimes Tommy Brock moved IN ; ( without asking leave ) . Tommy Brock was a short bristly fat waddling person with a grin ; he grinned all over his face . He was not nice in his habits . He ate wasp nests and frogs and worms ; and he waddled about by moonlight , digging things up . His clothes were very dirty ; and as he slept in the day - time , he always went to bed in his boots . And the bed which he went to bed in , was generally Mr . Tod's . Now Tommy Brock did occasionally eat rabbit - pie ; but it was only very little young ones occasionally , when other food was really scarce . He was friendly with old Mr . Bouncer ; they agreed in disliking the wicked otters and Mr . Tod ; they often talked over that painful subject .
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