The commission’s nonwhaling members, the United States included, should press for a complete ban.

'Pray, Mistress Mouse, will you give us some beer? Heigho, says Rowley, For Froggy and I are fond of good cheer.'

As I took the satiny-furred cat into my arms, his purring ratcheted up a couple of notches. Brian stood looking at the two of us, grinning, then said of the malnourished creature, “I guess we have a furbaby!”

We also tried the fadometer and found it graded in between. Taking that same example — between 70 and 21 to the ultra-violet light — it was 70 and 45 to the fadometer.