Sweetpotato

When allowed the great pleasure of an evening in the tent, she would inspect every object around the walls until the apple box or sweetpotato box was encountered, then dig and scratch and gnaw until an opening was made and one of the fragrant dainties obtained and eaten with evident relish. […] the writer had no trouble in catching a number in traps, and to test them on poisons he placed a little strychnine in two pieces of potato and two pieces of sweetpotato and put them into occupied burrows.