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The tuition fees were paid in a great variety of ways; in work, in grain, leather, musquash skins, rum, hauling hay and making shoes; he only handled 10s. in cash for his entire winter's work. In the year 1770 Mr. Burpee kept a diary which, while it contains some facts of interest, serves on the whole to show how narrow and monotonous was the life of the early settlers on the St. John.
At other times, as you struck sharply at the plunge, your fly would come back to you, or tangle itself up in unseen snags; and far out, where the verge of the firelight rippled away into the darkness, you would see a sharp wave-wedge shooting away, which told you that your trout was only a musquash.
"I'm goin' to look up his den in a few days, before he shuts in fur the winter, an' sot my trap, whar he's jest bound to tread in it goin' or comin'. Now, if so be ye feels that way, let's git back to camp an' hatch up some sorter dinner Ever eat musquash, boys?" "What, eat muskrats?" exclaimed Jerry, in disgust. "I never have, but would like to try the dish," remarked Frank.
There was another loon, a mother bird, on a different lake, whose two eggs had been carried off by a thieving muskrat; but she did not know who did it, for Musquash knows how to roll the eggs into water and carry them off, before eating, where the mother bird will not find the shells.
"Because a curious and hungry musquash, anxious to reach the bait I stuck on a splinter of wood just above the trap, set it off." "And then sprang back into the water, because that was his natural way of doing when alarmed, and soon drowned there. Was that the way it worked, Uncle Jim?" asked Max. The old trapper looked fondly at him and answered: "Exactly as you say, son.
"I did not know it needed tinkering." "It would puzzle a musquash to get out of my trap. I'd fix it so that it would go off if he touched it with a whisker." "I don't know how," said Bertie. Jack gladly offered his services. Here was a chance to make a small payment on account. "If you would be so kind, and not mind my speaking cross just now." "That's nothing," returned Jack, shortly.
Many things went into Jack's pockets that did not belong there. "Now hand us the trap, and we will get ready for the musquash." "Will he come again, do you think?" "What's to hinder? He knows what good grub is as well as you do. He will be poking his nose in again as sure as you're born." "I hope he will," said Bertie. "Did you ever catch one?" "No." "Never skun one, I suppose?" "Never."
Suddenly, as I watched, they began to dart about wildly, moving with astonishing rapidity for such little fellows, and whistling loudly. From the bank above, a swift ripple had cut out into the water between them and the only bit of bog with which they were familiar. Just behind the ripple were the sharp nose and the beady eyes of Musquash, who is always in some mischief of this kind.
"The wolf and savage carcajo drag down the hunger-weakened caribou and the deer, and rip the warm, red flesh from their bones before their eyes have glazed. And, in turn, the wolf and the carcajo, the unoffending beaver and musquash, the mink, the fisher, the fox, and the otter are trapped by savage man and the pelts ripped from their twitching bodies while life and sensibility remain.
Of course they had plenty of other things to eat besides Steve's pet dish. The boys made sure of this, not fancying the idea of having to depend upon the musquash alone. All of them but Steve tasted it and declared it fine. He could not be coaxed to even sample it at the time; but Old Jim believed Steve would come around in time.
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