■ Tile biL< Uiuou was rising over the iii 



A muskrat's domestic life is ei'ratic. Soiue- 

 tiuies there will be a large village in the pond, 

 and, again, an antninii ^\•ill ])ass withont a 

 single new house being built. It may be 

 that some of the old houses will l)e fitted uji 

 anew and oecnined ; liut I have known years 

 when there was not a house in the pond. At 

 no time do all of the muskrats liuild Aviuter 

 houses. The walls of the meadow ditches just 

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