THE AMBITIOUS RATS

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Once upon a time there were some rats. Nothing remarkable happened to them until they started to develop ambition.

Their ambition took the form of wanting to be much, much bigger than they were at the time. Almost all their activities began to be directed towards this end.

In the course of time they started to breed as larger and larger rats. The first noteworthy event in their history was when men, realizing that these rats were large enough, began to hunt them for their skins. The second event was when other men realised that they could trap them and exhibit them as the ‘biggest rats in the world’. The third important event will, no doubt, be reported to you when it takes place

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