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This was the first we had met, although its nests are very frequent in the cliffs of rocks and hollow trees, where we also found large quantities of the shells and seed of the prickly-pear." The queer rat discovered by Lewis and Clark was then unknown to science. It is now known in the Far West as the pack-rat.
"I intend to eat some myself," he replied with dignity. "Are they some kind of a varmint?" Dubiously. "Varmint?" "Pack-rat or weasel?" "Scarcely!" Wallie looked so injured that Pinkey said apologetically: "I was jest cur'ous." But inquired further: "Is that stuffin' or in'ards coming through the sewin' down the front of 'em?" "Forcemeat. I made it according to a recipe." "Indeed?" Politely.
An over-sanguine pack-rat tried to scramble up the tar-paper covering on the outside and squeaked as he fell back with a thud, but the face of neither man relaxed. Smaltz took the full limit of the time. He saw Bruce's fingers work, then clinch. Suddenly he grinned a sheepish, unresentful grin. "I guess you're the best man," He slouched to the bench and sat down.
Wouldn't the next day do just as well?" "No, it wouldn't," she replied. "You can give me an answer, right now." "Well, I'll go you!" said Denver and Old Bunker grunted and regarded them with a wry, knowing smile. There was music that evening in the Bunker Hill mansion but Denver Russell sat sulking in his cave with no company but an inquisitive pack-rat.
The next morning she told herself that she had given in to a fine case of nerves, and that the mysterious footsteps of her story had become mixed up with the midnight wanderings of a pack-rat that had somehow gotten into the house. Then she remembered the bar of light under the door, and the pack-rat theory was spoiled.
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