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Updated: June 6, 2025
I am affected by the sight of the cabins of the musk-rat, made of mud and grass, and raised three or four feet along the river, as when I read of the barrows of Asia. The musk-rat is the beaver of the settled States. Their number has even increased within a few years in this vicinity. Among the rivers which empty into the Merrimack, the Concord is known to the boatmen as a dead stream.
The hubbub increased, the opponents of the Musk-rat inquiring who his ancestors were; until a diversion was created by an able discourse of the Macaw on structures generally, which he classified so as to include the honeycomb, entering into so much admirable exposition that there was a prevalent sense of the honeycomb having probably been produced by one who understood it so well.
I wish I had as many dollars as I know you won't catch a musk-rat. I could buy the Baby Pitcher's canary to-morrow. Couldn't I, pet?" Flora had come in, as she did every morning, to inquire about the musk-rat. "Buy it to-day," said Flora. "Couldn't buy it to-day for want of money." "You must not think anything about the bird," said Bertie, "for Charley never will have any money."
These natives were very superior to those whom the travellers had last met with, and one of them was engaged to take the place of Bluenose. This man, who was clad in a shirt made of the skins of the musk-rat, after which he was named, was a very lively individual.
Mount, knife in hand, ripped up the bales of crackling peltry, and Elerson delved in among the skins, flinging them right and left in his impatient search. "There's no powder here," he exclaimed, rising to his knees on the road and staring at Mount; "nothing but badly cured beaver and mangy musk-rat." "Well, he baled 'em to conceal something!" insisted Mount.
"I'll give you twenty-eight for that musk-rat coat," said Mac. Benham turned, stared back at him a moment, and then laughed. "Oh, well, I suppose I can get another made for Rainey before the first boat goes down." "Then is it on account o' the bread," the Colonel was saying, "that the old-timer calls himself a Sour-dough?" "All on account o' the bread." They crowded out after Benham. "Coming?"
"One of the Shageluk squaws can do that sort of thing." "What's the fur?" "Musk-rat." And they talked of the weather how the mercury last week had been solid in the trading-post thermometer, so it was "over forty degrees, anyhow." "What's the market price of a coat like that?" Mac said suddenly. "That isn't a 'market' coat. It's for a kid of Rainey's back in the States."
About the beginning of April they encamped upon Godin's River, where they found the swamp full of "musk-rat houses." Here, therefore, Captain Bonneville determined to remain a few days and make his first regular attempt at trapping. That his maiden campaign might open with spirit, he promised the Indians and free trappers an extra price for every musk-rat they should take.
He never bathed in Black Pool that he did not dive in at one side and come out at the other. Why, his little brother could do that. There was no more danger for them than for a musk-rat, and Davie hurried away to escape more words about it, and to avoid meeting Mr Maxwell and his friends, who were coming down the street.
The gray squirrel and rabbit are brisk and playful in the remote glens, even on the morning of the cold Friday. Here is our Lapland and Labrador, and for our Esquimaux and Knistenaux, Dog-ribbed Indians, Novazemblaites, and Spitzbergeners, are there not the ice-cutter and wood-chopper, the fox, musk-rat, and mink?
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