Mr Bewick must have just visited Barrow-in -Fairness, where the wind
blows hard enough
to turn dogs inside out, so they look like surgical gloves ( according
to Mr Mike Harding)
Francis Wood wrote:
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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