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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
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e verycommon cottontail is an infrequent sightby day, and the varying hare, nowin its white winter pelage, must be care-fully still-hunted to be seen. Whenyou hit the trail of a varying, or North-ern, hare do not think it a bear track.This animal is well named the snow- white in winter, a fine example of pro-tective coloration. The mink and otter travel during thewinter and you will sometimes see theirtrails along the frozen water courses.The otter will sometimes take an over-land trip in winter from one stream orlake to another, and its trail is unmistak-able, looking as if some one had draggeda log through the snow. Both mink andotter are at all times great travelers, butwhen at home they are usually found inburrows in the river banks. Both are extremely fond of brooktrout, are expert anglers, and owners oftrout preserves will do well to watch fortheir trails along the streams and ad-minister cold steel in the form of a num-ber two steel trap. Once, when duck 498 THE OUTING MAGAZINE
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EVERYWHERE IN THE WOODS THE DEEP-OF THE DEER MAY BE SEE shooting In the early winter, I had anopportunity to observe a mink at hishunting. For nearly a quarter of amile I paddled my canoe behind him ashe worked along the river bank. My chief impression was that themink is curiosity and wickedness personi-fied. Otters are far less common thanmink, although formerly they were quiteplentiful; but the trapper has done hiswork well. Only a few years ago therewas an otter slide about half a milefrom the writers home in Connecticut,but at present not more than two orthree of these animals are seen in thevicinity \earl\. Every year a few black ducks man-age to stay out the winter, here in NewEngland, although at times open watermust he very difficult to find ; but, ofcourse, most of the water fowl andthe woodcock journey to their Southernestates before the real back-country win-ter sets in. There remain the ruffedgrouse, the quail, and, latterly, the Hun- garian partridge. Ofthe habits of the

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