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"Oh, yes, there is," Jerry Muskrat interrupted. "There are lily-roots and the nicest fresh-water clams and " "But there are no trees," said Paddy the Beaver, "and you know I have to have trees." Jerry stared at Paddy as if he didn't understand. "Do do you eat trees?" he asked finally. Paddy laughed. "Just the bark," said he, "and I have to have a great deal of it."
He next gave similar directions to old Josyna respecting his two younger sons, with this difference only, that when they were put to rest, and the door was locked upon them, she was to return to the kitchen and prepare a posset-drink of canary and spirits of sulphur, together with a poultice of mallows, lily-roots, figs, linseed, and palm-oil, for the patient.
The time came when the Beaver might well say, as he looked around on the community which he and his wife had founded, that he was a citizen of no mean city. But this could not last. A great calamity was coming a calamity beside which the slow destruction of the former town would seem tame and uninteresting. One bright February day the Beaver and his wife left their lodge to look for lily-roots.
The muskrats are leading hidden lives in the upper chambers of their snow-covered houses in the marshes and ponds or in the banks of streams, feeding on lily-roots and mussels which they get under the ice. The lean, bloodthirsty minks and weasels are on the hunt all winter. Our native mice are also active.
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