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2023-05-11 i416 He watched me as a cat watches a mouse (oil on canvas, 1909), Howard Pyle; Delaware Museum of Art |
"The grain ship," by Morgan Robertson, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, March, 1909. . In this story, most of a ship's crew die from rabies transmitted by rats. The only uninfected sailor (with gun) must protect himself from an infected colleague, who deliriously plots to kill him. |