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...President Coolidge has been invited to California. He ought to accept and he should visit this Mojave desert. On a hillside, below a big rock, he would see a complicated, ingenious bulwark of small branches, each one carrying thorns, protecting the hole of the desert pack rat...
...thoroughly American rat, no relation to the black and brown rats of Europe. It fears rattlesnakes, gopher snakes and ground owls. It has never seen one- otherwise it would not be alive...
...desert rat prepares and does his little best, with thorns and cactus. If he were President of the United States, he would build flying machines and make this nation independent of the flying rattlesnakes of Europe and Asia...
...Rat, Tiger...
Another Wilson, this one C. A., in Houston, Tex., put a white rat in his pocket and got into a cage with a Bengal tiger. The enormous feline, striped with jungle shadow, smelled the trembling rodent in Trainer Wilson's pocket. Wilson was his friend, the rat his enemy. He stalked the rat, knocked Wilson down, struck savagely at the rat, wounded Wilson's side, tore Wilson's shoulder, was shot by zoo assistants. Wilson, wounded, recovered. The rat, unhurt, died of fright...