Show Rats Speaking of rats said Bartholomew Barthol-omew 101 once saw a rat sitting in its hole which was in the wall about three feet above the floor of the building and directly over a hens nest on which the hen was setting lIe was waiting for the lien to lay her egg as you will see Presently the hen left the nest cackling cack-ling and Mr Rat after surveying the newly laid egg for a moment darted back into the hole as if for help He soon appeared again and chirruping commenced to descend I to the nest but what was my surprise sur-prise to see another rat following with the tail of another one in its mouth then another and another in the same manner until there was a chain of seven rats reaching from the hole in the wall to the hens nest The leading rat then grasped the egg in his paws hugging it under his chin and chirrupped again which was the signal to hoist away when every rat began a retrograde movement dragging number one with his egg safely into the hole Eats are smart you bet I once saw a lot of them crossing a space between two buildings sort of an exodus Three of them were traveling travel-ing abreast with a straw in front of them which each held in its mouth r chased them and caught the middle mid-dle rat and would you believe it he was stone blind 1 The others had been leading him with tho itraw Oh Im posted on rats |