and the logging beaver occasionally fells his tree 

 upon other workers with a fatal result. As with 

 axe-men, the beaver doing the cutting is on rare 

 occasions caught and killed by the tree which 

 he fells. 



Rarely does the beaver give any thought to 

 the direction in which the tree will fall. In a few 

 instances, however, I have seen what appeared 

 to be an effort on the part of the beaver to fell 

 a tree in a given direction. From an uncomfort- 

 able place he cut the lowest notch on the side on 

 which he probably wanted the tree to fall. On 

 one of these occasions, the aspen tree selected 

 stood in an almost complete circle of pines. The 

 beaver took pains to cut the first and lowest notch 

 in this tree directly opposite the opening in the 

 pines. I have seen a number of instances of this 

 kind. And he will sometimes leave the windward 

 side of a grove on a windy day, and cut on the 

 leeward, so that the felled trees are not entangled 

 in falling. 



Rarely does more than one beaver work at the 

 same time at a tree. In some instances, however, 

 if the tree be large, two or even more beaver will 



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