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press, the doors of wliicli liad been left open. Macky 

 climbed the doors, ransacked the press, pulled out the 

 sheets, tablecloths, &c., and threw them down to the 

 beaver, who, havmg made a most luxurious bed, laid 

 himself down thereon; and when the room was entered, 

 Macky and Binny were found fast asleep, the former 

 with his head and shoulders pillowed upon Binny's com- 

 fortable neck. When Binny died, I determined to have 

 no more sorrowing for pets, and sent Macky to the 

 Zoological Society's Garden in the Kegent's Park, where 

 they got him a wife, with whom he lived long and 

 happily. 



The two beavers which were in that garden when I 

 gave the late lamented Mr. Bennett permission to print 

 the account of my domesticated beaver, were sent to the 

 society from Canada by Lord Dalhousie. They were 

 partially deprived of sight before their arrival in this 

 country : but one of them had the use of one eye ; and 

 the other, although totally blind, dived most perse- 

 veringly for clay, and applied it to stop up every cranny 

 in their common habitation that could admit 'the winter's 

 flaw.' They lived some time together, apparently happy 

 and contented. 



January, 1850. 



