DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



HOUSE IN WHICH THE PACK RAT WAS CAUGHT IN AN 

 UNBAITED TRAP 



the Chelan Mountains near Paddy's home may ac- 

 count for the ease with which the slide rock rattler 

 inserted its body into the cleft in the cliff where 

 the nest was located. By some unexplained acci- 

 dent little Paddy's life was spared, but when the 

 mother rat returned to her home it was to find the 

 graves of all her other children marked by an egg- 

 shaped swelling in the living body of the reptile, 

 which resembled in appearance a Christmas stock- 

 ing. 



The most relentless and bloodthirsty foe of all 

 wild creatures is man and such is the terror usually 

 inspired in their hearts by the presence of a hu- 

 man being, that it is seldom we have an oppor- 

 tunity to witness 



