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  • We follow cleft hoofprints of a bull moose, you striding ahead, I lagging; you reading woods lore -- ice-stripped bark, deer-nibble, last winter's furry, matted fisher-cat spoor; I distracted, musing.

    August Walk 2002

  • We follow cleft hoofprints of a bull moose, you striding ahead, I lagging; you reading woods lore -- ice-stripped bark, deer-nibble, last winter's furry, matted fisher-cat spoor; I distracted, musing.

    August Walk 2002

  • We follow cleft hoofprints of a bull moose, you striding ahead, I lagging; you reading woods lore -- ice-stripped bark, deer-nibble, last winter's furry, matted fisher-cat spoor; I distracted, musing.

    August Walk 2002

  • Worse for him, he was not alone, having interrupted the slumber of a fisher-cat who had been sunning himself on the raised hearth.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • The local farmers would as soon have paid for the room and board of a fisher-cat who had killed a porcupine.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • I understood: inch for inch and pound for pound, there is no more savage adversary in all the natural world than the fisher-cat.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • The coyote went for the fisher-cat as he slipped off the hearthstones, and succeeded in grabbing his hindquarters in his maw.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • I understood: inch for inch and pound for pound, there is no more savage adversary in all the natural world than the fisher-cat.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • The fisher-cat looked up at us as we were drawing a bead with our slingshots, made a calculation, and darted into a crevice in the cellar wall, invisible to the human eye and too small for the godforsaken coyote even had he been in the best of health.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

  • For an instant the fisher-cat appeared almost to smile at the coyote.

    Stillwater William F. Weld 2002

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