surrendered to superior force--and within two minutes wns eatinr 
rolled oats from my fingers! A'ter his meal he unconcernedly set 
up and gave his face a most tremendous washing and combed out his 
magnificent whiskers which would touch both sipes at once of an 
8-inch alley, and which serve him by the sense of touch when hi8 
black beady pop eyes fail in the utter darkness. 
Paddy's apparent lack of fear, and the comnplete confi- 
dence he evinced in receiving a square deal at my hand-s, was 
absolutely uncanny as he sat on my hand an0 coolly end interest- 
edly sized up the situation with his lud  ously cuizzical ex- 
pression. While he. had no fear of my hads, and would not attempt 
to bite however handled, he was desperately afraid of Per gy 
O'Neill, and in this matter I cokmended his excellent judgement! 
That we might become yet better acouainteC Paddy was 
duly installed in sumptnrus quarters (a~soreened cracker box) 
lately vacated by a Whistling or Pock squirrel who had been my 
guest for a time.  In consideration of his circumstances and 
the lateness of the season he was furnished a large bunch of wool 
from which he proceeded at once to help me construct a nest in 
approved pack rat fashion. I almost exrected to hear hi- say: 
"1 call this giving a fellow mighty nice treatment, old tor". 
The Pack Rat is an amusing and most interestin animal, and 
sometimes a very annoying one from his strange habit of collect- 
ing miscellaneous odds and ends of no arnarent uossible ue to 
him around his nest.  1e differs widely in several resrects from 
the common smooth-tailed black or wharf rat of the east, not 
only in appearance but in his entire nature and habits. .e is 
comraratively short legged and travels with a smooth, furtive 
gliding motion instead of the humy gallop of the wharf rat. 
Also, he is remarkable in having a hairy instead of a smooth tail. 
Again, he appears to be absolutely a noncombatant, while the 
wharf rat is not atall backward about inflicting a serious bite. 
Paddy can focus his great paper-thin ears in any direction and, 
like the bats, has the power of folding and curling them close 
to his body when not in special use, or perhaps when cold. FTis 
gnawing teeth are not nearly so stronr as those of other rptn 
and he feeds very largely on green herbs of various kinds of 
which he also lays up great store for winter. 
Paddy has one little habit which works to his hurt, -s 
it may discover him to his en&mies when he is securely hidden. 
This is "thumping". He does this by striking his heel on the 
floor in the manner of a hare, and if imitated he will answer 
each challenge. This action anpears to be, as it certainly is 
in the hare, a challenge, as if he would say; "I defy you to get 
me out of heret". 
Paddy is of strictly nocturnal habits. Though sometimes called 
Mountain Rat he in reality lives anywhere from the heart of a 
clump of prickly pear on the sun-baked desert up to near timber 
line, where he gives place to that cueer little srrite of the 
bald wind-swept crags, the Coney or "Ihistlinp Hare. 
 
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