CHAPTER XIX. 
BEAVER AS WeatHER PropHEeTsS—SomeE oF THEIR 
* VERIFIED PROGNOSTICATIONS. 
N giving credit to the beaver for their wonderful gift 
as to future weather conditions within the yearly 
circle of the earth’s journey around the sun, it is proper 
that a verified statement of the same should be made 
record of. For this the author quotes from his own 
writing to the Washburn Leader during his connection 
with that newspaper which was between the years 1893 
1901. While the beavers were not visited every year 
during this time, yet a record of the observations so 
made were inserted and published in the Leader upon 
my return, and I cannot recall a single instance where 
these animals were mistaken in their prognostications as 
interpreted. To make these things more clear to the 
reader I copy the following from the Leader under date 
of March 13, 1897, concerning the beavers’ prophecy 
as interpreted in the Leader the previous October. 
While much of the article is in line with impressions 
already noted in the preceeding pages of this book, to 
thoroughly understand its purport the entire article, 
Minus its heading is herewith reprinted as it appeared 
in the Leader : / 
‘If one will take the time and opportunity to study 
animals and animal life, they will find among certain 
