LITTLE BEASTS OF FIELD AND WOOD 



there this winter as far as I know, though I have 

 found them on two or three occasions at no great 

 distance away in the swamp. 



It certainly begins to look as if the minks 

 have at last learned that that particular brook 

 is dangerous to them, in winter at least ; for there 

 have been traps set there every winter, and all 

 winter, for the last six years or more, and dozens 

 of minks have met their fate there, though I 

 have not heard of any having been taken at that 

 place within the last year or two. 



It is a pretty well-known fact among hunters 

 that most flesh-eating animals can be more readily 

 called by imitating the squeaking of mice than 

 in any other way ; and it would seem to prove 

 conclusively enough that these creatures depend 

 largely upon the sense of hearing in their strug- 

 gle for a livelihood. 



Standing one day beside an old tumble-down 

 rail-fence that ran along between the woods and 



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