Brute Neighbors
animal, o naturalists,
prolific en and
domestic cat. t kind of cat for me to
keep, if I any; for s cat be winged
as well as his horse?
In to
moult and bath his wild
laug rumor of he
Mill-dam sportsmen are on t, in gigs and on foot, two
and tent rifles and conical balls and
spy-glasses. tling tumn
leaves, at least ten men to one loon. Some station themselves on
t, for t be
omnipresent; if come up t nohe
kind October ling the
surface of ter, so t no loon can be hough
he woods resound
he waves generously rise and dash angrily,
taking sides er-fosmen must beat a
retreat to tooo
often successful. to get a pail of er early in the
morning I frequently saately bird sailing out of my cove
o overtake , in
order to see ely
lost, so t I did not discover imes, till the
latter part of t I che
surface. off in a rain.
As I ober
afternoon, for suctle on to the lakes,
like the pond for a
loon, suddenly one, sailing out from tohe middle a
fe of me, set up rayed himself.
I pursued when he came up I was
nearer t I miscalculated the
direction ake, and y rods apart when he came
to time, for I o erval;
and again han
before. I could not get hin half
a dozen rods of ime, he surface,
turning , er and
tly c com