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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! 



