[Concord, Massachusetts]
[September 30, 1912]
[no. 5]

it no more harm than an angry Squirrel
nipping at another might have done. While the 
Rat was evidently badly frightened he either came
back into the cabin within a minute after
being bitten & driven out or else another Rat
exactly like him took his place. While searching 
for him the second time the Weasel ran not
only along the high shelf but also out along
a pole and a folded sail & over a gun case
while I was sitting at table only two yards away.
Gilbert saw him do this but did not see him
actually tackle the Rat. As I have said he
looked as big as a half grown Mink &
quite as bulky being very unlike in shape
to the lithe, slender little common Weasel.
I saw him last in the hole & then left him, having
to catch a train across the river.