THE BEAVERS OF BEAVER CREEK 



short paws as they daintily nibbled away at 

 their lunch. 



After whiling away the pleasant summer and 

 successfully escaping their enemies without the 

 loss of a single member of their family the 

 happy little lumbermen went in company with 

 their young, who were to receive their first les- 

 sons in the arts of a beaver and began repairing 

 their dam and enlarging their winter home to 

 accommodate the thrice increased numbers in 

 their family. This was accomplished by add- 

 ing more material to the outside and digging 

 out the inside to the required size. Then 

 there was a much larger food supply to be 

 stored away but in due time all was accom- 

 plished and they were again locked in out of 

 harm's reach for the second winter in their 

 home on Beaver Creek. Full Moon lost none 

 of his interest in these industrious furry neigh- 

 bors who "worked while they worked and 

 played while they played." It was from his 

 lips after he was a grown man, living in the 

 small town situated upon the banks of the 

 stream near the old beaver dam, that he told 

 me the history of the beavers of Beaver Creek 



