ALONG FOUR-FOOTED TRAILS 



as I am now relating it for the benefit of 

 my readers. 



The following spring there were six more 

 little beavers added to the family. In the fall 

 the lodge was made still larger to accommodate 

 the increase. As time passed they had their 

 ups and downs as do all well regulated families. 

 Several of their number lost their lives either 

 through being made a meal by their enemy, the 

 otter, who made his home in the neighborhood 

 or through being caught in Full Moon's steel 

 trap. The third summer there were two new 

 lodges built not far from the parent one. The 

 first litter of young had left the parent's roof 

 for ones of their own and built by their own 

 efforts. Each family gathered its own food 

 supply and would rather starve than borrow or 

 steal from a neighbor, and each dug its own 

 family burrow for summer use. But the dam 

 was repaired and looked after by the entire 

 colony. The following year there was another 

 dam built below the first one by the members 

 who left the parent lodge that summer and the 

 watery city of mounds continued to grow. 



During the summer two men, an Indian and 



