Show The Mushrat Nine-year-old Joe Is still wondering why his mother and father were both seized with a coughing fit when he gave them this masterpiece of his own composition to reuri: The mushrat is about 3 times as ulg as a oranery house raL he has a plump figur and round head lie Is brown on his body but no hear on his tale. His house Is round und marie of lily-roots and cattales. In winter if he Is frozen In he eats the lily-roots lily-roots of his tiouse. His Habits are good If he lives out near farms. II he gets a carrot he gose to a elevnt place where he can jump of at the first sine of danger. He Is used for mushrat cotes |