muskrat

The brothers took odd jobs together, picking fruit, caddying at the local golf club or trapping muskrats and selling the fur.

He later transferred to the Asheville School in North Carolina, where he spent his free time catching muskrats, and studied at Williams College in Massachusetts, grouse hunting on the weekends.

Even in one of the earliest books, the Muskrat philosopher ends up seeing the point of things.

But it was a young hawk, unversed in the way of the muskrat, which had seized him.

No muskrat had ever, within her experience, even tried to fight her.

But flight was far from the big muskrat's mind in that crucial moment.

He knew that the muskrat could not stay for ever down in that muddy crevice.

An old Indian once told me how a muskrat lays up stores of food in his house.