Some of the rats feast on the flesh of the two dead men while others run away. A handful of the rats that eat the flesh of the two men die instantly. Others make it a few steps before they too collapse.
Curiously, a gold necklace can be seen around the neck of one of the miners. How in the world the poor wretch would have ever come by it is a mystery. His wages would never have allowed him such an extravagance.
