Rascal A memoir of a better era Author:Sterling North Rascal"a furry ball of utter dependence and awakening curiousity, unweaned and defenseless" was discovered by the 11-year old Sterling's Saint Bernard late one May afternoon in the base of a hollow stump. Sterling, living with his absentminded father in a housefold that already boasted a pet crow, four skunks, woodchucks, cats, a Saint Bernard,... more » and a hal-completed 18 foot canoe in the living room, didn't encounter the normal objections a mother might have raised to the introduction of a wild racoon into the family. ...« less