winter-holes

Updated: May 21, 2025

Towards the spring, when the days begin to be a little warm, they leave their winter-holes and enter the barns compelled, most probably, by the failure of their winter-store. Great numbers are then destroyed by the cats. Their fur is of little value, and their flesh uneatable.

Samuel Strickland - Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West: The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)