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The muskrats have built higher than common this yearFrontispiece
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Their paper fort ... had by September grown to the dimensions of a water-bucket and contained a prodigious swarm of valiant fighters34
There are other feathered folk who seem to delight in the cold118
Here in a little tangle of tiny undergrowth and brown leaves, with a fallen trunk for overhead shelter, you might find him any forenoon132
You may ... get a glimpse of the weasel-like head of one lifted above the bank as he sniffs the breeze for game and enemies160
He lifted his head high, fluffed out those glossy black neck feathers and strutted179
He was in and out again in a jiffy182