Scabbers

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 27697

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Maria <maryblue67 at y...> wrote:
> Hey there!!
> 
> i hope this comment is interesting enough to be in the
> list, although it's not a bid deal...
 

> Well, but what i wanted to say has to do with Scabbers. i
> just finished reading "Little Women", a book i have been
> wanting to read for a long time, although i had seen the
> movie. In the book, there is kind of pet rat in the attic
> where Jo reads, and it's name is Scabbers. 

Actually, Jo's rat is named Scrabble, which is similar, but not quite 
iidentical.

  - CMC

"Jo!  Jo!  Where are you?" cried Meg at the foot of the garret stairs.

"Here!" answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, 
Meg found her sister eating apples and crying over the Heir of
Redclyffe, wrapped up in a comforter on an old three-legged sofa
by the sunny window.  This was Jo's favorite refuge, and here she
loved to retire with half a dozen russets and a nice book, to enjoy
the quiet and the society of a pet rat who lived near by and didn't
mind her a particle.  As Meg appeared, Scrabble whisked into his
hole.  Jo shook the tears off her cheeks and waited to hear the news.

    - Little Women, Chap. 3