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                           RAT IN THE SKULL

                            BY ROG PHILLIPS

              _Some people will be shocked by this story.
            Others will be deeply moved. Everyone who reads
              it will be talking about it. Read the first
               four pages: then put it down if you can._

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
              Worlds of If Science Fiction, December 1958.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Dr. Joseph MacNare was not the sort of person one would expect him to
be in the light of what happened. Indeed, it is safe to say that until
the summer of 1955 he was more "normal", better adjusted, than the
average college professor. And we have every reason to believe that he
remained so, in spite of having st