Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 385
itely, was dictated bythe children, who assured me that the word polite must be somewhere in the letter, in someform or other. It really took me a long while tomake up my mind where to tell the rats to go, andI felt no little ashamed when at last the thoughtof the rich gravies and pastries led me… … OUR TOMCAT WAS SENT INTO THE CELLAR TO DRIVE THEM OUT. we know that more can be done among men andwomen by gentleness than by anger, why mightnot the same be true with regard to rats ? ThusI reflected, and therefore I wrote this letter: really believed the rats would have paid any atten-tion to the…
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