Discusses his ambitions.
Writes of rats that gnaw through lead pipes to find water.
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Discusses his ambitions.
Writes of rats that gnaw through lead pipes to find water.
Apologises for troubling CD to look for his lost MS.
He will repeat his experiments on the cat’s sense of smell.
The intelligence of rats is shown by their gnawing through lead pipes to find water.