Paw Prints TidBits for October

October means a change in the weather...and Halloween, the scariest holiday of the year. This month's anecdote is about Louis Mountbatten (1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma) and one of his childhood fears. The sidebar includes a cat joke and some interesting factoids about cats. We invite you to view a slideshow of black cats and quotes about these lovely creatures. You may also want to visit the homepage for links to several anecdotes about people who spent their lives creating suspense.

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Anecdote of the Month

Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979)

A n e c d o t e . . .

The five-year-old Mountbatten was reluctant to go to bed alone in the dark. "It isn't the dark," he told his father confidentially. "There are wolves up there." His father smiled. "There are no wolves in this house," he said reassuringly. This was of little consolation to the rational young Mountbatten. "I daresay there aren't," he replied, "but I think there are."

B i o g r a p h i c a l . N o t e . . .

British naval commander, great-grandson of Queen Victoria. A flotilla commander at the beginning of World War II, he was made chief of combined operations in 1942 and subsequently supreme allied commander in southeast Asia (1943-46). After the war he served as viceroy (1947) and governor-general (1947-48) of India, First Sea Lord (1955-59), and chief of defense staff (1959-65). He was assassinated by an IRA bomb in 1979.

M o r e . I n f o r m a t i o n . . .

READ about Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.