MUSKRATS 



ONG before man be- 

 gan to inherit the 

 earth, giant beavers 

 built their dams and 

 swam in the streams 

 of long ago. For ages 

 these creatures have 

 been extinct. Our 

 forefathers, during his- 

 torical times, found smaller beavers 

 abundant, and with such zeal did they 

 trap them that this modern race is now 

 well-nigh vanished. Nothing is left to us but the hum- 



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