| Show OVERRUN1 WHITE TS Away up on the cast side of Now York a horrified man said to his wife at breakfast yesterday Where did all the white rats como from White rats exclaimed the wife aghast Where have you seen any white rats Havent you Rot over your merry Yuletide yet husband White rate with pink eyes said tho My dear John said the wife solemnly sol-emnly why did you stay at tho Crows Nest so long the other night other moraine inc I mean The words were scarcely out of her mouth before she squealed and rushed from the room so runs a story in the New York Press band Whats the matter asked the hus bandRats Rats said she What kind of rats White with pink eyes They are the rats I was talking about said the husband and they are real 0 realA A meager investigation was enough to show that the whole neighborhood of far upper New York east has been Invaded by rats Not the common ordinary plebeian Ple-beian horrid rat but the aristocratic white rat with the eyes that go with his albino color I came about in this way now dont laugh this is a true story A young man from down town who is very fond of pets took a couple of rats away uptown He built a beautiful home for them and in a few months he had instead of two rats white with pink eyes a colony frat f-rat white with pink eyes and he is a total abstainer at that As long as his I rate woes were restricted to the limitations limita-tions of his own back yard Charles wag contented But when the rats began to I overrun everything in his house and In everybody elses he was not so happy And now every resident In the neighborhood I neighbor-hood is crying Deliver us from the white rats with pink eyes I |
