84 The Muskrat 
ripened about September first. Judging from the nu- 
merous and well defined paths leading to the old tree, 
the muskrats must have visited it almost nightly from 
the time of the earliest windfalls until the apples were 
A BuRROW EXPOSED SHOWING A FEW APPLES STORED FOR WINTER 
gathered. One of these paths was so well worn and 
there were so many remains of apples along its course 
that I decided to open the burrow from which it led. 
There was half a bushel of apples in that burrow! 
