I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination ... but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.
Evalyn Walsh McLean, Boyden Sparkes (2000). “Queen of Diamonds: The Fabled Legacy of Evalyn Walsh McLean”, Turner Publishing Company