Rat Tales from the Attic Floor

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.” – The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe And for Edgar Allen Poe – the visitor was the Raven saying "nevermore". But in a contemporaneous historic house in Pennsylvania, a rat...