| Show muskrat stops train the marshes around the boston maine railroad yards in boston are full of muskrats charley brown a yard brakeman bral ceman has been realizing over a season since the war by shooting rats on his spare time and selling the fur which now commands a high price brown has been known to shoot a muskrat from the top of a moving freight car with a rifle A short time ago a muskrat tied up the interlocking switch snitch system at signal tower C the big rat crawled into the swItch poInts to eat opt the grease used to lubricate the switches just as the lever man in the tower tried to close the switch for a fast express passenger train the rat had wedged in so close the switch close and the plant was tied up the mechanic found the rat wedged into the points and crushed into a mass of fur and flesh |
