Four-footed Americans and their kin . Maksh Rat. sometimes in the centre of a little island of reeds as theGrebe does, jumping directly from the nest into thewater and swimming away. The Wood, Trade, or Pack Mat is quite a personal appearance is extremely handsome; hewears a coat of tawny gray fur with white vest andboots; he has big mild eves, while his face wears more EATS AND MICE 841 of the Rabbits gentle expression than the cruel, greedylook of a rat. His gnawing habits do not seem to gethim into very deep disgrace with the farmers ; it is hisambition that leads him into tro
Four-footed Americans and their kin . Maksh Rat. sometimes in the centre of a little island of reeds as theGrebe does, jumping directly from the nest into thewater and swimming away. The Wood, Trade, or Pack Mat is quite a personal appearance is extremely handsome; hewears a coat of tawny gray fur with white vest andboots; he has big mild eves, while his face wears more EATS AND MICE 841 of the Rabbits gentle expression than the cruel, greedylook of a rat. His gnawing habits do not seem to gethim into very deep disgrace with the farmers ; it is hisambition that leads him into trouble. He wishes to bean architect, bric-a-brac collector, and pedler all in he and his wife make their home in an outbuilding orattic you will think the house full of evil spirits. This. Wood or Pack Rat. Rat comes, sees, takes, hides, and sometimes returns,articles with lightning rapidity. What for, no WiseMan that I know is able to tell. Do the Rats decide tomake a nest under a bush, immediately they set to workto stack up a heap of out-door rubbish as high as a Musk-rats lodge; paper, shavings, corncobs, clothes pins, oldstraps and buckles from the stable, ends of rope, news-papers, a kid glove, all having been found stored away 342 FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS inside one of these strange homes. Once in my Coloradop camping days a pair of these Rats turned our dug-out camp topsy-turvy during a two days filled the tea kettle from a heap of shavings andsplint wood that had been cut for kindling, mixed aquantity of fish hooks in a sack of flour that was up onthe roof logs, emptied a case of shot on the hearth, andmade away with every tin spoon our outfit could boast,In return, they filled the frying pan with a lot of stickycones that they must have brought from
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