Chapter Harvest Moon to Hatto of H by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

pursued him and ate him clean to the bones, after which his castle sank to the bottom of the lake, "where it may still be seen."
   A similar tale is recorded in the chronicles of William of Mulsburg, book ii. p. 313 (Bone's edition).
    Mice or rats. Giraldus Cambrensis says: The larger sort of mice are called rats. (Itinerary, book xi. 2.) On the other hand, many rats are called mice, as mustela Alpina, the mus Indicus, the mus aquaticus, the mus Pharaonis, etc.