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Show aha Slept With Kal. Detroit Free Press. A lady now living in Detoit, wife of an ollicer in the navy, tells this true store of a rodent: "I was 10 years old at the time, and verv fond of pots. We had a family of Maltese kittens which were just beginning begin-ning to ruu about when this incident occurred. ".My father had killed a litter of rats, the old mother rat escaping. That night, after I had retired, 1 felt oue of the Maltese kittens creeping up to my . r . l lace, i iook. it in in arms, ami went to sleep with my check resting against it. In the morning it was still there, and I took it up in both hands to fondle fon-dle it, and Paw it was a big brown rat, and dropped it with a scream." "My father heard mo and ran into my room. He caught the rat and dropping drop-ping it out of the window into a vain water barrel where it drowned. Itwis-the Itwis-the mother of the littlo rats he had killed, and he said a mother rat is always al-ways docile and disinclined to bite. But it was au experience I would not like to repeat." |