musquash

Equally curious with these are his descriptions of the “beasts living in the water,” as the otter, musquash, &c., and of “the birds and fowls, both of land and water.”

I remember especially one big musquash that I was going to shoot near one of my traps, when I stopped short at noticing some queer thing about him.

"While we were facing starvation, why stewed musquash sounded right good to us; but with a whole carcass of venison on our hands it's plain muskrat again; and there you are, Lil Artha."

The darker sorts of mink, 348 musquash, raccoon and wolverine are more valuable than the paler skins.

The only reassuring note in the "musquash talk" to-day is sounded when the subject of candles is reached.