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tings about twelve feet away from the house. 

 The pond was solidly frozen to the bottom, and 

 the beaver had all been caught. The entrances 

 to their house were full of ice. One beaver was 

 found at the food-pile, where he apparently 

 had been gnawing off a bark-covered stick. One 

 was dead between the food-pile and the house. 

 The others were dead by the entrance of an in- 

 complete tunnel beneath the dam, which they 

 apparently had been digging as a means of 

 escape when death overtook them. One had 

 died while gnawing at the ice-filled entrance of 

 the house. Inside of the house were the bodies 

 of two very old beaver and four young ones, 

 frozen solid. 



The death of these little people, one and all, 

 in their home under the ice, may have come 

 from suffocation, from cold, from starvation, or 

 from a combination of all these; I do not know. 

 But my observations made it clear that the 

 drought was at the bottom of it all. 



