THE BEAVER. 



THE beaver is found generally throughout 

 the United States, but in greater numbers in 

 the South and West. This is a water ani- 

 mal, and lives in holes in the banks of streams 

 and houses which it makes of sticks and mud 

 in the center of lakes. Its food is bark, corn, 

 mast, grass, and the like. It has its young 



