this was not uncommon. In going over the 

 grounds I found the explanation of this untidy 

 work in a bear track and numerous wolf tracks, 

 freshly moulded in the muddy places. 



After the bulk of the harvest was gathered, I 

 went one day to the opposite side of the moraine 

 and briefly observed the methods of the Island 

 beaver colony. The ways of the two colonies 

 were in some things very different. In the 

 Spruce Tree Colony the custom was to move the 

 felled aspen promptly to the harvest pile. In 

 the Island Colony the custom was to cut down 

 most of the harvest before transporting any of 

 it to the pile beside the house. Of the one hun- 

 dred and sixty-two trees that had been felled 

 for this harvest, one hundred and twenty-seven 

 were still lying where they fell. However, the 

 work of transporting was getting under way; a 

 few logs were in the pile beside the house, and 

 numerous others were scattered along the ca- 

 nals, runways, and slides between the house and 

 the harvest grove. 



There was more wasted labor, too, in the 

 Island Colony. This was noticeable in the at- 



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