would die; they were valuable; they 

 belonged to the State and we were both 

 of us tax-payers. This thing must be 

 stopped at once. 



We rowed back to the dam and spent 

 three hours tearing a hole three feet 

 wide through the middle of it. We 

 watched the water run out through the 

 break and then returned to camp. 



The next morning we found the dam 

 had been repaired during the night and 

 the water was flowing over its top as 

 usual. Two guests arrived at our camp 

 that morning. They were interested in 

 the 'story of the dam and spent all of 

 the afternoon in making another open- 

 ing to let the water out; but again the 

 beavers had the dam repaired before 

 the following morning. The Doctor had 

 by now settled in his camp at the western 

 end of the pond. He came across with 

 his two husky boys and they broke a 

 hole through the dam for the third time ; 

 and the third time the beavers repaired 

 the breach during the night. 



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