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landed them in a small, shallow harbor in the 

 grass. From this point a canal about eighty feet 

 long ran around the brow of the terrace and ended 

 at the top of a long slide which reached to the big 

 pond. This canal was new and probably had been 

 dug especially for this harvest. For sixty feet of 

 its length it was quite regular in form and had an 

 average width of thirty inches and a depth of four- 

 teen. The mud dug in making it was piled evenly 

 along the lower side. Altogether it looked more 

 like the work of a careful man with a shovel than 

 of beaver without tools. Seepage and overflow 

 from the ponds above filled and flowed slowly 

 through it and out at the farther end, where it 

 swept down the long slide into the big pond. 

 Through this canal the logs had been taken one 

 by one. At the farther end I found the butt-end 

 log. It probably had been too heavy to heave out 

 of the canal, but tracks in the mud indicated that 

 there was a hard tussle before it was abandoned. 

 The pile of winter supplies was started. Close 

 to the big house a few aspen leaves fluttered on 

 twigs in the water; evidently these twigs were 

 attached to limbs or larger pieces of aspen that 



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