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This did not suit Nimrod. He as- \\ | 
7 sured me that there was no danger if a) 
we treated his skunkship respectfully, A? | 
and, as I was the photographer, I put on fea | 
my old clothes and meekly fell in line. ; 
Nimrod set several box traps in places R 
where skunks had been. These traps 8 
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- 
i me 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 
iy was he going to do? 
a Nimrod approached the trap. Just 
then a big tree chanced to get between 
