BEAVER CUTTING AND BEAVER HOUSE ON LOWER WEST ARM OF ITASC,' 

 Photo by D. Lange, Minn. Forest Service. 



in an otherwise reliable natural history, the muskrats and 

 beaver lived entirely at peace with each other, one paying 

 no attention to the other. In a house below a high bank, 

 beaver and rats also lived together peacefully, but in both 

 cases the rats generally used small entrances close to shore, 

 and I think they lived in a small cavity in the bank by them- 

 selves. In a third house muskrats were also present, but I 

 did not learn on what terms they lived with their larger rel- 

 atives. The rats fed almost entirely among the lilies and 

 other plants in the little bay in which the beaver house was 

 located, and seldom traveled more than afew rods from 

 home, but they also ate the foliage and bark of poplar on 

 the beaver house. They generally appeared about half an 



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