THE BEAVERS OF BEAVER CREEK 



bers they are laid neatly to one side for future 

 use in repairing the dam or adding to its 

 strength. The beaver stands forth in the ani- 

 mal world as a neat, cleanly and systematic, 

 four-footed citizen. 



Full Moon often visited the lodge during 

 the winter, while on his hunting rambles, and 

 enjoyed many a whiff of the beaver's odor that 

 penetrated through the top of the dome-shaped 

 structure. He was waiting for the time when 

 the family should increase so he could claim 

 some of them as his own. When spring came 

 and unlocked the icy gates and frosty nooks, 

 the beavers left their winter lodge and took up 

 their home in the burrow under the opposite 

 bank and the old cottonwood tree. During 

 the month of May the master of the beaver 

 home was often seen lazily floating about on the 

 water or sunning himself upon the bank. Later 

 his mate appeared with four cunning little bea- 

 vers, with wonderment in their small eyes as they 

 first beheld the great world surface about them. 

 How light and strange and big it all seemed 

 and how little they knew of what it would all 

 mean to them even in their little beaver world. 



