Word: musquash
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...literary executor), one comes upon two old friends from Jane and Prudence (1953), tyrannical old Miss Doggett and her younger paid companion, the self-effacing Miss Morrow. Their props and surroundings are familiar too: the excellent women "full of good sense," the pampered Anglican priests, the warmth of a musquash coat, the bedtime balm of Ovaltine, the ultimate taste test -- does one take China tea or Indian...
...Great Britain a musquash pelt is worth only about a shilling. Britons can get their furs more cheaply from the Continent. The British muskrat-fur industry, started after the War to employ ex-servicemen, has so languished that the animals have been turned loose upon the countryside. Though vegetarians, muskrats have been accused in Britain of devouring poultry and swine, of damming small streams and destroying the banks of the larger ones, of obstructing drainage and causing floods...
...animals are as prolific as the musquash. They breed three or four times a year; spring litters are frequently propagating by autumn. Before Great Britain was the sad example of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1905 five muskrats were taken from the U. S. to Prague. By 1914 their descendants had spread 90 mi. in every direction. In 1927 they covered half of Austria, had invaded Germany, were estimated to number 100 millions...
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