By THE BEAVER 
by making short dashes at it, and finally backed clear out 
of the hole, followed by the beaver, which would promptly 
be knocked on the head with a club by an Indian waiting 
there. 
D.S. Stanley, in the American Naturalist for June, 1868, 
mentions a half-breed at Fort Sully, South Dakota, who 
owned a female bull terrier which followed beavers into 
their lodges and pulled them out, having sometimes a severe 
fight and being badly bitten. ‘The Indians offer a big 
price (a large buffalo horse) for the dog.” He also states 
that the wolverene lies in wait for beavers by their trails and 
kills them. 
In the original Journals of Lewis and Clark it is related 
that on May 19, 1805, somewhere on the Missouri River, 
Lewis wounded a beaver which was in the water. His dog 
went in to fetch it out, when the beaver bit the dog in the 
hind leg, severing an artery, and it was feared the dog would 
die. 3 
DISEASE 
MacFarlane says that beavers are sometimes found dead 
of disease in their houses, and on the authority of Descham- 
bault, that in such cases the mouth and nostrils are generally 
infested by small white worms. 
Frow Seton, page 476: ‘‘Like others of our beasts this 
species has its years of increase and decrease, and also is 
subject to diseases that are as yet not understood. ‘Tanner 
says of the beaver of the Upper Red River about 1800 
[quoted by Coues in Henry’s Journal, p. 256]: ‘Some kind 
of distemper was prevailing among the animals which de- 
stroyed them in vast numbers. I found them dead and 
dying, in the water, on the ice, and on the land; sometimes 
I found one that, having cut a tree half down had died at its 
roots; sometimes one who had drawn a stick of timber half- 
