> Mr Bewick, the ingenious wood-engraver, has put on record a fact regarding > rats nearly as mystical as any of the above. He alleges that ' the skins of > such of them as have been devoured in their holes [for they are cannibals to > a sad extent] have frequently been found curiously turned inside out, every > part of them being completely inverted, even to the ends of the toes.' > > (from 'The Book of Days, A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection > with the Calendar, Edited by R. Chambers, Parts 10,12. Philadelphia. jJ.B. > Lippencott & Co.')
See . . . it's so easy that even rats can do it! I have no idea why the rats practised this skill. Perhaps a consequence of their unfortunate fascination with piping, as the sad events in Hamelin will demonstrate. Francis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
