When the ground was not yet quite covered,Coach Shoesand again near the end of winter,when the snow was melted on my south hillside and about my wood-pile, the partridges came out of the woods morning and evening to feed there.And perhaps at evening I see the hunters returning with a single brush trailing from their sleigh for a trophy, seeking their inn.Then the hunter came forward and stood in their midst, and the mystery was solved.
Nutting had a famous foxhound named Burgoyne -- he pronounced it Bugine -- which my informant used to borrow.In Goose Pond, which lay in my way, a colony of muskrats dwelt, and raised their cabins high above the ice,Prada Sunglasses though none could be seen abroad when I crossed it.Usually the red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius) waked me in the dawn, coursing over the roof and up and down the sides of the house, as if sent out of the woods for this purpose.
One would approach at first warily through the shrub oaks, running over the snow-crust by fits and starts like a leaf blown by the wind, now a few paces this way, with wonderful speed and waste of energy, making inconceivable haste with his "trotters," as if it were for a wager, and now as many paces that way, but never getting on more than half a rod at a time; and then suddenly pausing with a ludicrous Burberry Handbags expression and a gratuitous somerset.