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Callus to. You just empty the desk. You know what to do with the papers and the odds and ends of things.”

After the desk had been emptied and the boxes were being packed at the other end of the room, or outside, apparently whatever vermin were around had been disturbed in their haunts. I opened the lower drawer of the desk to see if it was cleaned out and there hopped out a large, black animal, the like of which I had never seen. It was all of three inches long and an inch and a half broad. It was the most alarming thing I had ever seen. It looked like nothing I had ever seen in the world. First I thought it was mouse. It was about the size of a mouse. I jumped up and shrieked. I called to Callus and said, “Quick, there's a mouse here. Get rid of it.”

He came in and said, “Oh, there's no mouse. Tha's a cockroach.”

I had never seen the Washington variety of cockroaches. We have cockroaches in New York and every apartment house dweller in New York City has faced the cockroach at one time or another, but the cockroaches in New York are a half to three-quarters of an inch long. Every experienced New York housekeeper is familiar with the ordinary cockroach or croton But, as we used to call them. They were called that