I managed to stop by old man Thompson's place a few times while collecting around Okeechobee, and the place was a trip. He sold Racoons and Opossums, and people who owned a Chinese restaurant used to come by on a regular basis and buy his larger turtles for soup and God knows what. He used to keep recently caught red rats and yellow rats in a big foot locker just inside the screened porch in that old shack of his. One visit I saw no fewer than 40 corns and yellows in that trunk. We'd just reach in with both hands and dig through them to look for the best ones.

Tom, wasn't he eventually robbed and murdered at his place?

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