Recurrent Rat

Readers of "The Wisdom Box," George C. MacKinnon's colyum in the Boston Daily Record, learned last month of a strange & wonderful white rat, owned and disowned by Philip Baldwin of Medford, Mass., radio control man for National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WEEI. Radioman Baldwin, reported Colyumist MacKinnon, bought two white rats, one of which soon disappeared from its box in the Baldwin garage. It had been missing ten days when Mr. Baldwin suddenly beheld it perched impudently on a brake drum of his automobile. He grabbed, missed. The rat darted out of sight into the car's internals, Mr. Baldwin knew not where.

Mr. Baldwin took his car to a greasing station, requested rat-removal. Greasers searched vainly for 45 min., gave up. Mr. Baldwin went to an auto-laundry, had his car thoroughly soaked. The rat stayed inside.

For 500 mi. he drove the car with the white rat somewhere inside. Sometimes it would come out in the tonneau, frisking over the seats. Once it appeared on the hood, dashed across the windshield. Finally, one day, Mr. Baldwin drove over a bumpy road. Out fell the rat. Mr. Baldwin sped away, last saw the rat running after him.

Last week Station WEEI, gratified at the publicity Mr. Baldwin's rat had given it. had further news for its patrons. The rat was back--not in the automobile, but in Mr. Baldwin's back yard.

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