"[To the rat]... I have a writ here that says for you to stop eating Chen Lee's corn meal forthwith. It is a rat writ. It is a writ for a rat and this is lawful service of said writ."
Cogburn sees a rat eating cornmeal in Chen Lee's living quarters in the book True Grit by Charles Portis. Drunk and feeling the need to show off, he ends up deciding to shoot it. However, he ends up missing on his first try, and it takes two tries for Cogburn to hit his mark and kill the rodent, which is clever foreshadowing of a scene later in the book. Mattie is in the position to rid herself of her own rat problem- that being Chaney- where she has to take two attempts in order to kill him with her gun.
I like that you went with foreshadowing here rather than symbolism
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