X-RAYS ON EX-PROBATIONERS RATS leave sinking ships; but you cannot be sure that a ship will sink because you see a rat running away from it. The captain may have given orders about it. ____________________________ Persecution is like Keating's Powder. It does not injure the most delicate skin, but it removes all vermin. ____________________________ "Mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted lifted up his heel against me" --- and then I saw it was the hoof of an ass. PERDURABO. {142}