This did not suit Nimrod. He as- 

 sured me that there was no danger if 

 we treated his skunkship respectfully, 

 and, as I was the photographer, I put on 

 my old clothes and meekly fell in line. 

 Nimrod set several box traps in places 

 where skunks had been. These traps 

 were merely soap boxes raised at one 

 end by a figure four arrangement of 

 sticks, so that when the animal goes in- 

 side and touches the bait the sticks fall 

 apart, down comes the box, and the an- 

 imal is caged unhurt. The next morn- 

 ing we went the rounds. The first trap 

 was unsprung. The second one was 

 down. Of course we could not see in- 

 side. Was it empty? Was the occu- 

 pant a rat or a skunk, and if so, what 

 was he going to do ? 



Nimrod approached the trap. Just 

 then a big tree chanced to get between 



