Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 424
at ran,a bare three feet of clay, between the meadow-sea and the wilder river-sea beyond. No day at the zoological gardens was equal tothis. To creep along the narrow bank, holdingon against the rush of the wind or the dash ofsome huge wave, was like walking into a live picture of the Garden of… … WHAT A LAND FOR A BOY TO TRAP MUSKRATS IN! mice, moles, shrews, snakes, turtles, squirrels,and muskrats would scurry around your feet, orplunge back into the water to let you pass. And in what strange craft they sometimescame ! Two muskrats and a gray squirrel driftedup within my reach on the top…
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