whether he sent a wireless message or 

 a telepathic command, or whether the 

 date of her coming had been arranged 

 between them before he left home, we 

 never knew. It seems quite probable 

 that she just naturally knew that it was 

 high time for her husband to stop ex- 

 ploring and loafing and to get busy 

 building a house and storing a supply of 

 food for the winter, so she arrived. 



She would have no difficulty in fol- 

 lowing his trail, which after the habit 

 of his kind, he doubtless marked at more 

 or less frequent intervals by scooping up 

 from the bottom of the pond or stream 

 a double handful of soft mud, which he 

 would place on the shore, shape it up 

 into a nice round mudpie and deposit 

 in its center a few drops of "Castoreum." 

 This material has a peculiar, pungent 

 and individual odor easily recongized 

 by members of a beaver family. The 

 Indians also highly prized the castoreum 

 of the beaver for its supposed medicinal 

 properties. 



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