HAIRY-TAILED PACK RATS 35 



DEAD PACK RAT, OUTLINE TRACED FROM THE ANIMAL, 

 AND LIVE PACK RAT WITH FEET IN A TRAP 



anything these rats do love better than their own 

 little souls it is to make as much noise and racket 

 as they possibly can; still Jim the trapper would 

 not kill the rats. When Jim found his boots filled 

 with an assortment of pebbles, and garbage in- 

 termingled with the buttons from his clothes, he 

 would say things which should never be repeated 

 much less printed, but still the rats lived in his 

 shack unharmed. 



This conduct on Jim's part was so divergent 

 from the character of the man, as I knew him, that 

 it needed some explanation. I do not mean that 

 it was at all unusual for him to use strong lan- 

 guage when the spirit moved him; but I do mean 

 that it was very queer that this man, who spent 

 his life killing things, 



