swimming under the ice, carrying sticks 

 from the wood pile into the tunnel 

 leading to the house; also later, beaver 

 bringing peeled sticks out of the house 

 and placing them in a very orderly man- 

 ner on another pile. Reports also 

 reached me of beaver under the ice 

 digging pond lily roots and carrying 

 them into the house. 



In the following April after the ice 

 in the pond had broken up, the beavers 

 came out of their winter home and 

 brought with them six young beaver 

 puppies. The father beaver with the 

 white head now went away on his sum- 

 mer exploration trip. We later learned 

 that it was the habit of all male beavers 

 to wander far from home during the 

 summer months. The mother remained 

 at the pond and took care of her six 

 young ones; but with them she moved 

 into the burrow in the bank where we 

 had first seen the old male beaver go to 

 hide. 



Many times during the summer we 



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