Sterling North, yes. I believe RASCAL was the title. I
remember being given a copy.
AKR.
Alan K. Rode
www.alanrode.com
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Raccoons
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>I seem to remember there are a couple of books about
someone having
raccoons as
>pets. Were the books by Sterling North? From the
early sixties, perhaps
late
>fifties? The pictures in the books are really cute,
makes you want to have
one
>- a raccoon, that is.
>
>Not very much on-topic, though...
>
>Juri
Not on-topic? Raccoons wear bandit masks, travel in violent
gangs, break into houses and garages, steal like crazy and
even take their young children with them on heists to train
them in their nefarious ways. Two of them beat up my cat last
week just because he looked at them funny while they were
eating his dinner. (But I still like raccoons - and possums,
who, btw, do not smell bad at all when they are house
trained.)
But the real question is, "Are raccoons' lives hardboiled or
noir?"
(I anticipate some cooking jokes in response here.
Savages.)
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