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Ch 4 The Rattrap Flamingo English By Selma Lagerlof NOTES ‘The Rattrap’ is a story that underlines a belief that essential goodness in human beings can be aroused through sympathy, understanding and love. Once a man went around selling small rattraps but he took to begging and thievery to keep his body and soul together. One day he was struck with the idea : the whole world is a big rattrap and it offers riches as bait. People let themselves be tempted to touch the bait then it closes in on them bringing an end to everything. One dark evening the rattrap peddler sought shelter in an old crofter’s roadside cottage. The old man gave him food, tobacco they enjoyed the card game too. Next morning the peddler stole away his thirty kroner ( krone = 8.51 Indian Rupee). The rattrap peddler escaped into a big confusing forest and got lost. While resting on the ground he recollected his idea that the world is a rattrap and thought his end was near. Hearing a thumping sound he reach...