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1Many a village Bose, fit only to course a mud-turtle in a victualling cellar, sported his heavy quarters in the woods,
2without the knowledge of his master, and ineffectually smelled at old fox burrows and woodchucks' holes; led perchance
3by some slight cur which nimbly threaded the wood, and might still inspire a natural terror in its denizens;--now far
4behind his guide, barking like a canine bull toward some small squirrel which had treed itself for scrutiny, then,
5cantering off, bending the bushes with his weight, imagining that he is on the track of some stray member of the
6jerbilla family. Once I was surprised to see a cat walking along the stony shore of the pond, for they rarely wander so
7far from home. The surprise was mutual. Nevertheless the most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days,
8appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the
9regular inhabitants. Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, and they all,
10like their mother, had their backs up and were fiercely spitting at me. A few years before I lived in the woods there
11was what was called a "winged cat" in one of the farm-houses in Lincoln nearest the pond, Mr. Gilian Baker's. When I
12called to see her in June, 1842, she was gone a-hunting in the woods, as was her wont, (I am not sure whether it was a
13male or female, and so use the more common pronoun,) but her mistress told me that she came into the neighborhood a
14little more than a year before, in April, and was finally taken into their house; that she was of a dark brownish-gray
15color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the
16fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming stripes ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and
17under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped
18off. They gave me a pair of her "wings," which I keep still. There is no appearance of a membrane about them. Some
19thought it was part flying-squirrel or some other wild animal, which is not impossible, for, according to naturalists,
20prolific hybrids have been produced by the union of the marten and domestic cat. This would have been the right kind of
21cat for me to keep, if I had kept any; for why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse? In the fall the
22loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his wild laughter
23before I had risen. At rumor of his arrival all the Mill-dam sportsmen are on the alert, in gigs and on foot, two by two
24and three by three, with patent rifles and conical balls and spy-glasses. They come rustling through the woods like
25autumn leaves, at least ten men to one loon. Some station themselves on this side of the pond, some on that, for the
26poor bird cannot be omnipresent; if he dive here he must come up there. But now the kind October wind rises, rustling
27the leaves and rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be heard or seen, though his foes sweep the pond
28with spy-glasses, and make the woods resound with their discharges. The waves generously rise and dash angrily, taking
29sides with all water-fowl, and our sportsmen must beat a retreat to town and shop and unfinished jobs. But they were too
30often successful. When I went to get a pail of water early in the morning I frequently saw this stately bird sailing out
31of my cove within a few rods. If I endeavored to overtake him in a boat, in order to see how he would manœuvre, he would
32dive and be completely lost, so that I did not discover him again, sometimes, till the latter part of the day. But I was
33more than a match for him on the surface. He commonly went off in a rain.
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