This just gets better and better! Thanks to all for their contributions. Cheers Anthony --- On Thu, 28/1/10, Francis Wood <oatenp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
From: Francis Wood <oatenp...@googlemail.com> Subject: [NSP] Mr. Bewick, Rats and Inverted Bags To: "Dartmouth NPS" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu> Date: Thursday, 28 January, 2010, 16:34 > 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 [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html