Muskrats Good This Year
Ed Raney, an ichthyologist, told of hiking with Hamilton in the Montezuma Marshes
north of here and coming on a shack in which some trappers were skinning
muskrat. Hamilton asked if the muskrat had been running good this year and without
waiting for an answer, reached over, took a bite out of one of the carcasses, and
answering his own question, announced "yep, they sure are". After they left, Raney
asked him why he'd done that. Had he seen the look on their faces! What was he doing
anyway. Hamilton rejoined: oh, those guys don't have much to talk about all day just
running their trap lines and skinning them out. Now they got something to talk about.
From Nina Lambert