Take it like ya like it dudes but let's take just the title of the story where a bit if simple analysis will point to what I'm saying.

Laddle is not a word in the English language, at least not according to Websters, therefore dispensing with the idea the author used other words phonetically similar to relay his message. Nor with any amount of phonetic contortions can it be pronounced as the word it intends to playfully construe because the letter "a" is never pronounced as an "i" unless used in conjunction with another vowel, which in this case seems to be absent. Had the author used "Liddle" instead, though it's a noun, it would have at least been a word and would then validate the concept you espouse behind the authors word play.

BTW, according to the Urban Dictionary, "laddle" is a word [www.urbandictionary.com], however, I doubt this slang mish mash existed at the time of the authors penning his story in 1940.

Rat of course is a word, so we're good there. Though the author started off great he seriously dropped the ball in trying to convey the word "red" as his meaning since the letters "at" can never be found to phonetically produce the linguistic equivalent of "ed".

Rotten, here again we obviously have a common word yet once more under no existing phonetic mangling can the "otten" that follows the R be twisted to pronounce or convey the sounds of the letters "iding".

Hut once more we have a word, yet again no phonetic similarities other than the fact it starts with the same letter "h" as the word "hood" nor can it be commonly perceived that the letters "ut" will be pronounced in any manner to make the same sounds as the letters "ood" as used in the word "hood"

I understand poetic license, and mangling of language, playin with wurdz, hell I take it and do it all the time. This however is not emblematic of the basis of your argument as though there are mostly common words used, not all are, and we've only explored the title itself! Secondly, having used letters and combinations of letters that phonetically do not lead to the pronunciation of the intended words, again your argument falls flat on its face.

I ain't tryin to pick a verbal fight here but if you can disprove the above assertions please do so, otherwise, reedit an wepe