| Show TRADE RATS ArIzona Rodents that Give Olve an Equivalent Equivalent Equiv Equiv- alent for Wheat They Steal A miner near the Senator recently bad iad a rather singular experience with trade rade rats known also as mountain ats says the Prescott Courier As the IB nights were cold the miner miner took is ore sack to replenish his rather hard ard bed TIa Having ving neglected to come cometo to o town for several weeks his supply of f beans had given out and he had come ome down to a diet of straight bo con on Considerably out of humor he start start- ed d in to pull his bed to pieces one morning and in removing the sacks was as agreeably surprised to find three pounds of eans with a little coffee coffeo nixed mixed which the trade rats had wrought brought from the Senator and stored in n his bed The rats are aro native Americans and andery ery different from their imported Norway cousins cousins They are called trade rade rats because they generally an article m In exchange for what they icy take away The miner miner states states- that mt he never killed a trade rat that these icso rodents habitually steal from fromme me one cabin and nd carry their plunder into nto an adjoining one that on one oc oc- casion he spilled a n. couple of quarts of of corn orn on the tho floor of his cabin and anel tho next ext morning found the rats had stored every grain of it in in a pair of hanging upon the wall He lIe also states that they thoy have thick caudal audal appendages I about three inches in n length which they keep constantly throwing up and down striking tho floor with each downward movement with ith the regular measured stroke of a musical professor marking time They carry arry off plugs of tobacco rushes brushes combs and brushes in in fact anything which they can enn manage to I move I j |
