He learned that if he spread-eagled himself against the glass, they'd bunch and bundle against his figure. Then he'd leap back...
9 seconds sound clip from the Three Skeleton Key (Escape) classic radio play.
You can hear this line at 00:18:15 in the radio play.
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- Yeah, the sharks are our friends.
- Here, here. I'll get another bunch together. Ha ha ha!
- Here, my beauties. That's it. Pile up! Kill each other! Ha ha ha!
- Auguste joined in, too. Oh, very ingenious, Auguste.
- Look! My portrait... in rats!
- It went on all day. And then... I was lying in bed. It was about midnight.
- Couldn't figure it at first. I got up, lit the lamp and went to the window.
- Even as I looked at it, I saw one of the panes begin to sag in.
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