he shore of the lake. In another moment
she called out:
"Oh, I see it! I see it!"
"What is it?" asked Mun, made brave by what he saw Rose doing, and he
followed her. Vi and Margy trailed after them. "What is it?"
"It's a big rat, that's all, but it isn't the kind of rats we saw the
hired man catch in a trap at the barn. It's a nicer rat than that, and
it's eating oysters on a rock near the shore."
"Oh, is it _really_ eating oysters?" asked Vi.
"They look like oysters," replied Rose. "Oh, there he goes!" and, as she
spoke, the animal, which did look like a rat, plunged into the water and
swam away, only the tip of its nose showing.
"Tisn't a bear," said Rose, "and 'tisn't an elephant."
"Then what is it?" asked Vi.
Rose did not know, but when the children went to the house and told
Grandma Bell about it, she said:
"Why, that was a big muskrat. They won't hurt you. There are many of them
in the lake, and in the winter the men catch them for their skins to make
fur-lined coats from. It was only a big muskrat you saw, Mun Bun."
"And was he eating oysters?" asked Vi, who liked to know all about things.
"They were fresh-water clams," said Grandma Bell. "There are many of them
in the lake, too. The muskrats bring them up from the bottom in their
paws, and take them out on a rock that sticks up from the water. There
they eat the clams."
"Well, I'm glad it wasn't a bear I saw," put in Mun Bun.
"So am I," said Mother Bunker with a laugh. "But you needn't be
afraid--there are no bears here."
While this had been going on Laddie and Russ, with their father in the
boat, had been having a good time. They rowed up the lake, and once or
twice Mr. Bunker let the boys take the oars so they might learn how to
row.
"If you are going to be around the water," said Mr. Bunker, "you ought to
learn how to row a boat as well as how to swim."
"I can swim a little," said Russ.
"Yes, you do very well," returned his father. "And before we go back I
must teach Laddie."
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Notka biograficzna
Reverend Nehemiah Adams (born February 19, 1806; died October 6, 1878) was an American clergyman and writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829. He was ordained as co-pastor of First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that same year. In 1832, he married Martha Hooper.
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Joanna Baillie (September 11, 1762February 23, 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist. Baillie was very well-known during her lifetime and, though a woman, intended her plays not for the closet but for the stage. Admired both for her literary powers and her sweetness of disposition, her cottage at Hampstead was the centre of a brilliant literary society. Baillie died at the age of 88, her faculties remaining unimpaired to the last.