mushrats

In the library she had not had much time to give them, but now she knew the luxury of stopping, gravely asking Bessie Clark whether her doll had yet recovered from its rheumatism, and agreeing with Oscar Martinsen that it would be Good Fun to go trapping "mushrats."

Main Street 1920

"Ah gee, lez -- oh, lez go down the lake and swipe some mushrats out of somebody's traps," Cy was yawning.

Main Street 1920

"Ah gee, lez -- oh, lez go down the lake and swipe some mushrats out of somebody's traps," Cy was yawning.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

“Ah gee, lez — oh, lez go down the lake and swipe some mushrats out of somebody’s traps,” Cy was yawning.

Main Street 2004

Then, besides, I find a use fur the same in setting traps, fur mushrats ain't ther on'y kind o 'fur we bags araound these diggings. "

Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails Alan Douglas