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As he spoke he slid down the lower part of the bank and stretched himself like a cat. But all the time he was looking at Master Meadow Mouse out of the corner of his eye. "What are you doing here?" Peter Mink asked pleasantly. "I came to take a swim," Master Meadow Mouse explained. "Have you had it?" "Not yet!" Master Meadow Mouse told him. "And I believe I'll wait till to-morrow."
In the open spaces the Joe-Pye weed swarms. In two minutes After leaving the upper road you have scared a mink or a rabbit, and you have probably lost the brook. Listen! It is only a gurgle here, droning along, smooth and dark, under the tangle of cedar-tops and the shadow of the balsams. Follow the sound cautiously.
But perhaps he never stopped to think that one might almost as well bite a rock as his hard shell. And anybody might better chew a piece of leather than try to take a mouthful out of his legs, or his neck, or his head. So no one paid any heed to Timothy Turtle's kind offer. Even Peter Mink, who was himself overfond of biting people, wisely let Mr. Turtle alone.
But the fish rotted away, as did also another basketful in another place. Whatever was eaten went to the crows and mink. Keeonekh disdained it. The next night he walked into it. But the trap that was sure grip for woodchucks was a plaything for Keeonekh's strength. He wrenched his foot out of it, leaving me only a few glistening hairs which was all I ever caught of him.
Crow laughed. "The two tunes don't go well together," he said. "So we won't have any more music." And Fatty Coon cried that he was glad of that, because when people whistled about things to eat it only made him hungrier than ever. Too Many Disputes On the whole, Mr. Crow's party would have been a great success if it hadn't been for Peter Mink and Tommy Fox.
In winter time the trap and the blunt arrow add another fur collar to the coat of the feminine sybarite. The woods and plains are full of hunters. The hawk is on the wing; the murderous mink and weasel never cease their crimes; the bird seeks the slothful worm and jumping insect; the fox, cat, and wolf forever quest for food.
A long summer passed in proximity to the pioneer's cabin had enabled him to find out that eggs were good. He hastened his steps, and with a sliding scramble, which attracted the attention of the men in the canoe, he arrived at the water's edge. But to his indignant astonishment he was not the first to arrive. The mink was just ahead.
'What are you crying for? asked the old wolf and some friends who had been spending the afternoon with him. 'I shall never see my grandson any more! answered she. 'Mink has killed him, oh! oh! And putting her head down, she began to weep as loudly as ever. 'There! there! said her husband, laying his paw on her shoulder.
Grandfather Frog opened his great mouth as wide as he could, which is very wide indeed, and laughed until the tears rolled down from his great, goggly eyes. Jerry Muskrat and Billy Mink rolled over and over on the bank, laughing until their sides ached. Even Spotty the Turtle smiled, which is very unusual for Spotty.
You see, all those wonderful pictures set him thinking. And he lost no time in inviting everybody to help. He even invited Peter Mink, though he was sorry, afterwards, that he had. For a day or two everybody in the neighborhood of Blue Mountain was as busy as he could be, getting ready for the parade. Cuffy Bear had promised to be the elephant, because he was so big.
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