The Rescuers by Margery Sharp
Author:Margery Sharp
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59017-571-2
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2011-12-21T05:00:00+00:00
The door fitted too closely for even a mouse to run under.
(SOURCE: Nils.)
Once a day, of course, it was unlocked by the jailer with the food pans, and then Nils was pretty certain he could have got in too — if it hadn’t been for Mamelouk the cat, see below.
Mamelouk regularly accompanied the jailer on his rounds. It was his horrible amusement to jump down into a dungeon, as soon as the grid was opened, and torment the prisoner by spitting at him while he ate, and then ride up again on the food pan.
(SOURCE: Gossip of jailers: overheard by Nils and Bernard.)
(MINORITY OPINION: Perhaps Mamelouk was trying to cheer the prisoners? — M. B.)
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