every summer ; but in the autumn nights you 

 cannot hide about their houses and fail to see 

 them. In October they are buikting their win- 

 ter lodges, and the clumsiest watcher may spy 



" In October tliey are building their winter lodges. ' 



them glistening in the moonlight as they climb 

 with loads of sedge and mud to the roofs of their 

 sugar-loaf houses. They are readily seen, too, 

 making short excursions into the meadows ; and 

 occasionally the desire to rove and see the world 

 will take such hold u^ion one as to drive him a 

 mile from water, and he will slink along in the 

 shadow of the fences and explore your dooryard 



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