![]() Rascal is a comfort for Sterling he snuggles up with him when Sterling is haunted by nightmares of the war that his brother is off fighting in France. There’s no question of Oscar taking the kit home with him because his father has no love for raccoons (and, outwardly, very little for his own son).īut Sterling’s mother died a few years ago and now lives along with his father, who is endlessly working on a novel and allows for a whole menagerie of creatures to fill his household and a half-built canoe to fill the living-room. ![]() Sterling and his friend, Oscar, and his Saint Bernard, Wowser, had originally thought it would be good fun to scoop all four kits and the mother raccoon, so that they could watch all the kits grow up.īut an elaborate entrapment scheme goes awry, and the boys must content themselves with a single kit. That’s Rascal, when 11-year-old Sterling pulls him from his mother’s nest one May. “It was in May, 1918, that a new friend and companion came into my life: a character, a personality, and a ring-tailed wonder.” ![]()
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