Answer:
(i) To get rid
of rats, a 'Rat Hunt' was started in 1902.
(ii) The French
hired Vietnamese workers and paid them for each rat they caught.
(iii) Rats
began to be caught in thousands but still there seemed to be no end.
(iv) Those
who did the dirty work of entering sewers found that if they came together,
they could get more money.
(v) The
bounty was paid when a tail was given as a proof that a rat had been killed.
(vi) So the
rat catchers took to just clipping the tails and releasing the rats, so that
the process could be repeated over and over again.
(vii)
Ultimately, the French were forced to stop the bounty programme.
(viii)
Besides this arrangement, the plague swept through the area.
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