5 / ^“/o ^ 
not notice me, for it kept steadily on until we reached 
Dakin's Hill, a distance of about a quarter of a mile, diving 
repeatedly, it is true, hut always in the deliberate, silent 
manner which the Muskrat$ adopts when not alarmed, elevating 
its rump and tail just as it disappeared and keeping ever 
straight on its course. But when at length I tried to pass 
it and was almost abreast of it, If dove with a great splash 
and doubled bank. 
2H 
