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The Rats' Warning
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graceful. But you can't blame us, can you? After all, who would stay on a sinking ship, if he could get off it?"
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"'And you have heard that rats always leave a sinking ship?'"
"It's very natural," said the Doctor—"very natural. I quite understand.… Was there—Was there anything else you wished to say?"