The geese fly exactly under his zenith, and honk when they get there, and he will keep himself supplied by firing up his chimney; twenty musquash have the refusal of each one of his traps before it is empty.
I feel no disposition to be satirical, when the trapper's coat emits the odor of musquash even; it is a sweeter scent to me than that which commonly exhales from the merchant's or the scholar's garments.
I "hooked" the apples, leaped the brook, and scared the musquash and the trout.
Musquash will be simply drawn over a bent willow and dried in the blazing sun or near the camp fire.
I have seen foxes, minks, martens and musquash as taken crumpled like rags from the same bag.
Because did we of the fraternity of hunters pause to consider, and reason, we must see that a musquash ought not, and cannot be different from a beaver.
This is to prevent the musquash from running out to deep water.
Musquash killed in clear water lakes are about two-thirds the size of those trapped in grassy, sluggish rivers, and it is the same with mink.
At times, when there are a number of musquash in the same lodge at the same time, the spear often passes through two, or even three, at one stroke.
From a hundred to a hundred and fifty thousand musquash skins was the usual returns from the post a few years ago.
Beaver, otter, mink and musquash are dark or light colored according to the water they live in.
The spearing of the musquash is done in this wise: The rats throw up little mud-cone lodges, or houses, out from the shore, in about a foot of water.
Musquash killed under the ice are worth two or three cents each more than in the fall, and the hunter makes frequently two to four dollars a day while it lasts.
Musquash breed twice in the summer, and bring forth at each litter from six to eight.
The minute likewise tells us that "Sir William Young was given a present of seven musquash skins for being instrumental in inviting Radisson over from France.
Claytonia acutiflora or Virginiana, the Musquash of the Micmac Indians, is found throughout the Northern and Southern States of North America.
I reckon that trap will hold a musquash next time it catches one.
She rose wearily and took her hat and coat and the musquash collar that had been her pride, and left him.
Matilda dressed herself in her very smartest and for the first time donned the musquash toque, tippet and muff she had been given.
But the tracks betrayed which way musquashwas travelling; so the trapper goes on, knowing if he does not find the little haycock houses on this side, he can cross to the other.
But here musquash has dived off into the water for the express purpose of throwing a possible pursuer off the scent.
Then musquash lives as heartily on owls and frogs and snakes as on water mussels and lily-pads.
One day when Musquash the muskrat swam past the cabins of Ahmuk the beaver, he saw them at work moving their lodges, and paused to watch them, even forgetting to munch a prize of lily roots because of his great curiosity.
Musquash to himself; “it seems to me that my cousins the beavers are always making themselves a lot of unnecessary work.
A musquash came by, and rubbed his nose against the canoe, and nibbled a lily root before he noticed me.
As in the case of the musquash (or muskrat), a strange instinct guides the beaver as to the height of his dwelling.
No ripple breaks its polished surface; no plash of musquash or leaping trout sends its vibrations up into the still, frosty air; no sound of beast or bird awakens the echoes of the silent forest.
The only reassuring note in the "musquash talk" to-day is sounded when the subject of candles is reached.
Wings flapped loudly here and there; bitterns squawked; herons croaked; a spike buck whistled and jumped close at hand; a passing musquash went down with a slap of his tail and a plunge like a falling rock.
I remember especially one big musquash that I was going to shoot near one of my traps, when I stopped short at noticing some queer thing about him.
Mooweesuk watches till he finds the place; then, while Musquashis gone away after more clams, he will run off with all that he finds on the dining table.
On the top of these mounds they build their nests, and on the top of the musquash nest, or 'lodge', wild geese frequently lay their eggs and bring forth their young brood without any fear of being molested by foxes.
In Canadian regions farther south the musquash no longer builds on the ice, but in swamps, where it raises heaps of mud like islands in the surrounding water.
I had drifted in close to shore in my canoe to see what Musquash was doing on top of a rock.
Then Upweekis, looking gaunt and dark and strange in his summer coat, was crouched on the rock with Musquash between his great paws, growling fiercely as he cracked the bones.
Musquash knows well that when a young loon, or a shelldrake, or a black duck, is caught in the open like that, he always tries to get back where his mother hid him when she went away.
I feel no disposition to be satirical, when the trapper's coat emits the odour of musquash even; it is a sweeter scent to me than that which commonly exhales from the merchant's or the scholar's garments.
Musquash in the spring is said to be tender and toothsome, but that overpowering smell of musk proved too much for our determination.
As soon as the skins of beaver and musquash are removed, the bodies, so many skinned cats, are impaled on sticks of jack-pine and set sizzling before the fire.
As long as the red fox brings forth her cubs to play in the starlight and marten and musquash increase after their kind, just so long will there be trappers and sons of trappers setting out from Fond du Lac.
He was looking at the musquashholes in the bank, and setting traps before those which showed signs of present occupancy.
Not far above the mouth of the stream the man set the last of his musquash traps.
I include January, because musquashand beaver are sold in that month.
They had some young musquash in their canoes, which they dug out of the banks with a hoe, for food, not for their skins, for musquash are their principal food on these expeditions.
An acquaintance of mine who was hunting moose in those woods a month after this, tells me that his Indian in this way repeatedly called the musquash within reach of his paddle in the moonlight, and struck at them.
We sank a foot deep in water and mud at every step, and sometimes up to our knees, and the trail was almost obliterated, being no more than that a musquash leaves in similar places, when he parts the floating sedge.
He eats no hot bread and sweet cake, but musquash and moose meat and the fat of bears.
It was the prevailing one here, and the Indian said that the musquash ate much of it; and here also grew the red osier (Cornus stolonifera), its large fruit now whitish.
In fact, it probably was a musquash trail in some places.
We swim, of course," said the Little Neighbor, "and I am one of the Musquash children.
I guess you would be afraid," said the Musquash child, "if people wanted your skin to make coats of.
As if the river was not there before the musquash was!
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