THE BEAVER 



THE beaver was once distributed to a vast 

 extent all over the globe, but is now found 

 in comparatively few sections of the Old 

 and New Worlds, and nowhere in great abun- 

 dance. The state of Montana, which until re- 

 cently had the largest number of them within its 

 boundaries, joined, during 1907, those States 



BEAVER 

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