The boys decided that there was no need of going back to the shack of the muskrat trapper again, while they were just half the distance from their own camp.

Keeokuskh, kee-o-kusk', the muskrat.

Musquash, mus'quâsh, the muskrat.

The head and front part of the body resemble the muskrat.

Chusco (muskrat), the old prophet or jossakeed of the Ottawa nation, had told me of his presence at Greenville, at the treaty, while a young man, alwith others of his tribe.

He had an expression of cunning and knowingness, which induced his people, when young, to think he resembled the muskrat, just rising from the water, after a dive.

Doughnuts, ex-barkeepers, and civilization at one end of the lake, and here were muskrat-skins, trappers, and the primeval.

Two hunters of moose, in default of their fern-horned, blubber-lipped game, had condescended to muskrat, and were making the lower end of Chesuncook fragrant with muskiness.

Our muskrat-hunters partook injudiciously of this unaccustomed dainty, and were visited with indescribable Nemesis.

The younger trapper of muskrat, being young, was ardent,being young, was hopeful,being young, believed in exceptions to general rules,and being young, believed, that, given a good fellow with a gun, Nature would provide a victim.

Why, bless your soul, You're looking down in a muskrat's hole!"

R121594, 30Nov53, Prosper Buranelli, F. Gregory Hartswick & Margaret Petherbridge (A) BURGESS, THORNTON W. Jerry Muskrat at home; illustrated by Harrison Cady.

Jerry Muskrat at home.

R121594, 30Nov53, Prosper Buranelli, F. Gregory Hartswick & Margaret Petherbridge (A) BURGESS, THORNTON W. Jerry Muskrat at home; illustrated by Harrison Cady.

Jerry Muskrat looked up and saw him.

There Little Joe Otter and Billy Mink and Jerry Muskrat were at play.

Billy Mink spoke of the matter to Little Joe Otter, and Little Joe Otter spoke of the matter to Jerry Muskrat, and Jerry Muskrat spoke of the matter to Sammy Jay, and right while he was speaking there came a shrill scream of "Thief! thief!

Billy Mink spoke of the matter to Little Joe Otter, and Little Joe Otter spoke of the matter to Jerry Muskrat, and Jerry Muskrat spoke of the matter to Sammy Jay, and right while he was speaking there came a shrill scream of "Thief! thief!

"You heard that when you was standing right in front of me and talking to me, Jerry Muskrat.

I told you that I hadn't been screaming in the night, and this proves it!" Jerry Muskrat looked as if he couldn't believe his own ears.

But others have had adventures, and one is Jerry Muskrat.

And in this fall of 1919 the prices of fox, marten, beaver, raccoon, skunk, lynx, muskrat, mink, otter, were higher by double than they had ever been.

And this," he continued, taking up the other instrument, "is a muskrat-spear.

The way to proceed is this: Go to a muskrat's house, and, with an ax, cut a chunk out of the top, directly over where they sleep.

They had started for the swamp, which lay about two miles and a half from the cottage, to see what the prospects were for a good muskrat-hunt in the spring.