tell the place where Musquash eats by the 



pile of mussel shells in the water below it; 



and sometimes you will find Mooweesuk's ^Jlfffe Brother 



track stealing down to the place, and if you ' 7 



follow it you will find where he cracked the 



clams that Musquash had gathered. 



There is another way in which Moowee- 

 suk is curiously like a bear: he wanders very 

 widely, but he has regular beats, like Moo- 

 ween, and if not disturbed always comes back 

 with more or less regularity to any place 

 where you have once seen him, and comes 

 by the same unseen path. Like Mooween, 

 his knowledge of the woods is wide and accu- 

 rate. He knows partly by searching them 

 out, and partly from his mother, who takes 

 him and shows him where they are every 

 den and hollow tree that will shelter a coon 

 in times of trouble. He has always one den 

 near a cornfield, where he can sleep when too 

 full or too lazy to travel ; he has one dry tree 

 for stormy weather, and one cool mossy shell 

 in deep shadow for the hot summer days. He 

 has at least one sunny nook in the top of a 

 hollow stub, where he loves to lie and soak 



