By survival or selection.
And yet, John Watts! John Watts!
Whether in closet or highway,
I doubt me that mice and rats
Are akin, in some sort of sly way;
And as long as the world sins on,
That the odds will be but a quibble
Between the deeds that are done
By brutes that devour—or nibble!
"Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree;