DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



PADDY PACK RAT'S NEST IN AN OLD POWDER CAN INSIDE 

 A GOLD MINE 



of their time to stealing and hiding silver thimbles, 

 scarf pins, and trinkets of all kinds, things which 

 they cannot eat or wear, things which, as far as 

 poor human intelligence goes, are absolutely useless 

 to the birds, as useless in fact, as a billionaire's 

 billions are to him; if any one can tell why these 

 birds and men collect these useless things, they 

 may possibly give us a reason for the pack rats' 

 eccentricities. 



One pack rat's nest found in an empty house 

 was built of heavy iron spikes, mixed up with 

 forks and spoons, and three large hunting knives, 

 this was not all that was in the pile, for there 

 was a carving fork and steel, several augers, the 



