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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