Brute Neighbors
pulsion of tyrant Ciern t; the
battle ook place in the Presidency of Polk, five
years before ters Fugitive-Slave Bill.
Many a village Bose, fit only to course a mud-turtle in a
victualling cellar, sported ers in t
ter, and ineffectually smelled at old fox
burrows and woodc cur
ill inspire a natural
terror in its denizens; -- now far behind his guide, barking like a
canine bull toself for
scrutiny, tering off, bending t,
imagining t rack of some stray member of the
jerbilla family. Once I o see a cat walking along
tony shey rarely wander so far from
ual. Nevert domestic cat,
he
hy behavior, proves herself more
native tants. Once, when berrying, I
met tens in te hey
all, like their backs up and were fiercely
spitting at me. A fehere was
;quot; in one of the farm-houses in Lincoln
nearest to see her in
June, 1842, sing in t (I
am not sure he more
common pronoun), but ress told me t so the
neigtle more than a year before, in April, and was
finally taken into t she was of a dark brownish-gray
color, e spot on , and , and had a
large busail like a fox; t in ter thick
and flatted out along ripes ten or twelve
incwo and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff,
tted like felt, and in the spring
t;;
t it flying squirrel or some other wild