Beaver 479 



pursuit of the Beaver that lured on the early explorers and that 

 brought here the original colonists. It was Beaver fur that 

 bought for white men the manufactures of Europe that were 

 needed to make life tolerable when first our people took to the 

 woods, and it is fitting indeed that this creature, the symbol of 

 energy, peace, and industry, should be the emblem of the 

 country for which it did so much. 



