II. 



SATAN THE RACCOON 



DURING the early years of my hermit-life, 

 I had caged many small animals, such as 

 deer-mice, raccoons, woodchucks, chipmunks, 

 flying - squirrels, 

 stoats, mink, and 

 red and gray squir- 

 rels. 



My first captive 

 was an artful old 

 coon. I caught 



him in a small steel 

 RACCOON'S HEAD. 



trap, the jaws of 



which had been wound with cloth as a pro- 

 tection to the foot. The den was under a 

 boulder near the cabin. I set the trap at 

 the mouth of the den and covered it with 

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