to drink in the beauty of the picture. 

 In the course of my wanderings in the 

 forests, I have often observed, in spots 

 that are particularly wild or picturesque, 

 or that have an extensive outlook, evi- 

 dences that deer have stood there, per- 

 haps stamping or pawing the ground 

 for hours at a time, while they enjoyed 

 the view. Such evidence points to the 

 theory that wild deer not only have an 

 eye for the beautiful in nature, but that 

 they manifest good taste in their choice 

 of a picture. 



One day two black bears were seen 

 feeding on the bank of the river just 

 above the falls. A family of beavers 

 have built a house about a hundred 

 yards below the falls and have made sev- 

 eral unsuccessful attempts to dam the 

 rapids, in which operations about an 

 acre of alder bushes have been cut and 

 dragged into position, only to be carried 

 down stream by the swift waters. This 



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