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broad dam and then heaved into a long, wet 

 slide which 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 fourteen. 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 

 water 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 

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