EPILOGUE
Having read thus far, Celia says, "But you still haven't got the Joke in."
Oh, well, here goes.
Extract from letter: "We came back to the line to-day to find that the cat had kittened. However, as all the rats seem to have rottened we are much as we were."
"Rottened" was misprinted "rattened," which seems to me to spoil the
Joke….
Yet I must confess that there are times now when I feel that perhaps after all I may have overrated it….
But it was a pleasant joke in its day.