mock-mouse

Updated: July 3, 2025

Arthur's line, some seventy or eighty feet long, was attached to his left arm as he paddled, which gave a most tempting tremulousness to the bait a mock-mouse of squirrel fur; and a great pike-fish, lying deep in the clear water, beheld it and was captivated.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement