70 BEAVERS—THEIR WAYS. 
our minds after inspection that the animals therein had 
a weather tip and were expecting no severe freezing for 
some weeks to come. The photographer took two rear 
views of the house, (See photo view facing page 70) 
and then retraced to a beaver’s wood trail where a view 
was taken of the animal’s work of the previous night, 
and he had cut a heavy willow that was so tangled up 
that the chopper evidently had a fall out with it, and 
left it swinging from the upper branches. Whether the 
beaver said ‘‘by gum’’ or used cuss words at his failure 
to haul down his little tree it would be idle for us to 
speculate but were inclined to think he had taken his 
disappointment philosophically and lost no time in look- 
ing up another piece of timber just as suitable for his 
purpose and much easier handled. [See illustration 
from photo facing page 72. | 
After our return to the rendezvous the photographer 
was again called into requisition with his tripod and 
camera by the fair picnickers who had so thoroughly 
enjoyed an Indian summer outing even though no ‘‘at 
home” cards were tendered them by their beaver friends 
of Painted Woods Lake, and who had picqued their 
guests still more ungraciously by refusing to be seen. 
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