He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

Book 1, in Fables, Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 11, The fatal Dart a ready Passage found, And deep within his Heart infix’d the Wound:

At early common law, gaming was not unlawful so long as it did not tend to immoralize the innocent or affect the interests of those not similarly engaged.

The best evidence so far that social supernumeraries are physically capable of bettering their lot concerns not rodents but birds.