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The Mink, 



too, sometimes eatcliing animals twice their own size ; 

 now a IMnskrat, then a Hare, a Gronse, or a fine Tront, 

 for the Mink is as mnch at home in the water as a 

 Mnskrat, swimming and diving easily. '' Thus we find 

 him everywhere, not only in all the temperate parts of 

 the countr3^ l)nt in all sorts of places, from the banks 

 of lonely watercourses to a burrow under the cow 

 barn.'' 



" It seems very queer that mother's muff once went 

 sneaking and tramping all over the country," said 

 Rap. 



" If Dodo knew about ^Nlinks, and liow savage they 

 are, I'm sure she would be afraid of her little tippet 

 with the head and claws. I never thought before how 



