Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     Two rats, upon their travels, fortunately fell in with an egg, sufficient to provide them both with dinner, which they were about to devour, when a fox made his appearance, a most unwelcome guest. The difficulty now was, to get the egg home, which they accomplished in this way. One of them lay on his back with the egg above him, between his forepaws, and the other dragging him by the tail, they reached their apartments with the prize, in security. Such is the sagacity of brutes.