This just gets better and better!
Thanks to all for their contributions.
Cheers
Anthony
--- On Thu, 28/1/10, Francis Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Francis Wood <[email protected]>
Subject: [NSP] Mr. Bewick, Rats and Inverted Bags
To: "Dartmouth NPS" <[email protected]>
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
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