OPOSSUMS AND OTHER SMALL ANIMALS 319 



cents to eighty cents apiece, and have a ready 

 sale in the Southern market. 



One rainy day while I was sitting in front of 

 the blazing fire in my camp, 



I SAW A WEASEL 



appear in front of my window. From my vantage 

 ground I could watch it with no danger of dis- 

 turbing the little animal. It ran around to the 

 kitchen door, looked into every can and dish, ex- 

 amined the door-sill and inspected the closed door, 

 then climbed up on the slanting cellar door and 

 sitting up on its hind legs looked long and at- 

 tentively into the kitchen window. The contents 

 of the kitchen seemed to interest it so much, that 

 it must have sat there at least ten minutes before 

 it slowly turned around and made its way to the 

 wood-shed, making a more complete inspection of 

 that building than a Japanese spy would of 

 s~*\ \~/~T~? a Russian fort. From 

 ^r^ there it went to the 



woodpile outside of 

 the shed and disap- 

 peared underneath. 

 The interesting part 

 j\ about all this was the 



very careful manner in 

 which the little 



*v - \ \ animal made .its 



>>- / ^ /i j tour of inspection. 



Weasels are often to 



MR. LANGDON GIBSON 

 EXAMINING A CROW'S NEST be found 



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