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Rats on the right side
From: The Nelson Mail
Date: 20080202
Author:RENNISON, Geoff
The poet Robert Browning put his finger on it:
"... but when begins my ditty,
almost five hundred years ago,
to see the townsfolk suffer so, from vermin, 'twas a pity.
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats ...
Rats have generally had a bad press over the years. While other animals have been associated with people in a positive light, rats have dipped out. Consider the following:
The geese, whose honking alerted the Romans to someone-or-other stealthily climbing the city walls. (One hopes that when the danger was past, the heroic birds weren't promptly cooked into pies.)
St ...
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