Show RATS SETTLE AN OLD SCORE in numbers they mutilate a vellum copy of brownings pled piper of hamelin Hamel ln rats invaded wall street a few nights ago and made it a vicious assault upon robert bro brownings poem of 0 the pled piper of hamelin in that poem it will be remembered the rats do not have a very good reputation so far as known this is the first case of retaliation by the rats against browning for the hard things he accused them of george D smith a dealer in rare books discovered the evidences of tho the tray fray early ozie morning orning the particular volume of 0 the pled piper upon which the rats vented their spite was an unusually handsome copy printed on oil vellum and illustrated lust rated with quaint views of the piper and the army of rats in his wako wake wending veil ding their way to the river the illustrations and decorated borders were sere by harry and the tha book was printed in london in 1898 it Is not a rare book but is a choice edition of the pled riper piper and very few have ever been printed on oil vellum the volume was on a shelf with some other vellum bools books in mr smiths shop all edges of the book from top to bottom were nibbled down close to the printed text and aad it is a curious tact fact that one or two falls of the rats in the decorated borders have been eaten off |