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Perhaps Reader Williams' cats are so undernourished they don't have the stamina to get the best of a rat, but since Esso Junior is seemingly well provided for he would exercise his muscles on large, fat rats for the sheer pleasure...
When widowed Katherine Tupper Brown told her sons that she was inviting an Army officer named Colonel Marshall to visit them at their home on Fire Island, the lads at once smelt a rat. "If it makes you happier, mother, it is all right with me," said Clifton (14). "I don't know about that. . . ." muttered Allen (12). But soon afterwards, the future Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army received a brief, secret note from Allen: "I hope you will come to Fire Island. Don't be nervous, it is O.K. with me. (Signed) A friend...
...book's charm lies in Author White's nostalgic evocation of 18th Century life, his knowledge of animal and country lore (in private life he is an ardent naturalist), and his ability to make genuinely dramatic such absurdities as the thrilling rescue of Maria by the Lilliputian rat-cavalry. The best things in Mistress Masham's Repose are the mischievous parodies of human clichés-of-thought-as when Captain, a dog, muses on the virtues of his owner, the cook...
...cats, death came to Minnie Esso in her 16th year, her 14th as an Esso employe. Her successor, named last week: Son Esso Junior, aged three months. First day on the job, Esso Junior proved that he could fill his mother's boots. He killed a large, fat rat...
...Keen-eyed Reader Burns is one up on TIME Mapmaker Chapin, who drew the Sea of Marmara, saw no rat in his red ring...