The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, by Beatrix Potter @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } The rats dropped the rolling-pin, and listened attentively. "We are discovered and interrupted, Anna Maria; let us collect our property—and other people's,—and depart at once." "I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding." "But I am persuaded that the knots would have proved indigestible, whatever you may urge to the contrary." "Come away at once and help me to tie up some mutton bones in a counterpane," said Anna Maria.