"Twelve dollars for the rat, one hundred dollars for theStory,"says the owner.
The tourist gives the man twelve dollars.
"I'll just take the rat,you can keep the story."
As he walks down the street carrying his bronze rat,he notices that a few real rats
crawl out of the alleysAnd sewers and begin following him down the street.
This is disconcerting; he begins walking faster.
But within a couple blocks, the herd of rats behind him grows to hundreds, and they begin squealing.
He begins to trot toward the Bay, looking around to see that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS,
and are still Squealing and coming toward him faster and faster.
Concerned, even scared, he runs to the edge of the Bay and throws the bronze rat as far out into the Bay
as he Can. Amazingly, the millions of rats all jump into the Bay After it, and are all drowned.
The man runs back to the curio shop.
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