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the rat island

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Rat Island (Or the missing link) The fearful creature of the blue lagoon meowed swam ashore and shook itself. The ship’s cat which had fallen off a cargo ship, a stormy tropical night, licked salty fur surveyed its new domain while rats in bushes quivered. Fifty one thousand rats in two years the cat ate and it grew bigger than an Irish wolfhound. When the island was clean out of rats it turned aquatic and caught fish with its sabre teeth; till the lagoon turned milky white and empty. The fearsome creature starved to death, and year later when its skeleton was found by a zoologist, who proclaimed that domestic cats ancestors where in fact a sabre toothed canine. Written January 10th, 2002 © on Jan 10 2002 05:31 AM PST   0 • 14

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