Studies In The Art Of Ratcatching

CBarkley's Little Manual On Rat Catching and Rabbit Catching Is From APast Era When Life Was Much Simpler And Our Propensity To Call APest APest Was Not Diminished By The Selective Fads And Niceties Of ModernityMost Important Of All, It Was An Era When The Aristotelian Idea Of Ends The Proper Conduct Of ALife Towards ADesired Conclusion Was Of Importance Not Just For Humans, But For All Living ThingsIt Was Proper And Ordained For Rats To Live Ratcentred Lives, Doing The Things Rats Do, Just As It Was Proper For Ferrets To Do The Things That Come Natural To ThemAnd, As Barkley Himself Indicates In His Introduction, It Was Ordained In The Great Scheme Of Things That Dogs Should Come To Their Human Masters And Not The Other Way Round, For This, Too, Represents ANatural Order In The Hierarchy Of BeingIt Was Proper Also, That Each Human Occupation Should Be Regarded As Having An Intrinsic Worth And The Value Of The Trade Of Ratcatching Should Be Seen In No Less ALight Than That Of Any Other ProfessionIndeed, As Barkley Hints In The Book, The Value Of ARatcatcher Might Well Be Regarded In AHigher Light Than That Of Your Average Politician Who, As Barkley Reminds Us, Is Prone To Giving Speeches When Parliament Is Not Sitting Or, Indeed, At Every Possible Opportunity! And This, As Barkley Tells Us, Is Why He Decided On ASchool Text Book For Prospective Rat Catchers.
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