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TIME'S inaccuracies are chronic, flagrant and even self evident! On p. 34 of your issue of Dec. 14, you say that a rat, with a "pointed grey face" fell into a Miss Rachael Galpern's "hot soap-bath"; yet a moment later you speak of the animal as "an enormous black rat!" Squirm out of that, if you can! I suppose you will say that a "black rat" can have a "grey face...
...Brooklyn, one Rachael Galpern, 14, was taking a hot soap-bath before going to a party. Hearing a slight scratching in the ceiling above her, she raised her eyes in time to see a pointed grey face peer at her from a hole in the plaster. The hole widened, the thin mortar crumbled, and an enormous black rat fell into the water with her, splashed about, caressed her with its clammy paws and insolently ogled her. Rachael screamed; Mrs. Galpern rushed in and killed the rat with a poker. That evening at the party when a little boy exclaimed...