Bige's fighting blood was now thor- 

 oughly "het up" and he said 'Til fix 

 them pesky beavers." A lot of men 

 were at work building a "tote road" 

 for a lumber camp over the other side 

 of the mountain about three miles from 

 our camp. Bige went over to call on 

 them, and he came back with four sticks 

 of dynamite and some fuse. These we 

 connected and placed on top of the dam. 

 We covered the dynamite with mud, 

 lighted the fuse, jumped into our boat 

 and rowed as fast as possible down 

 toward the pond. When a hundred 

 yards away, the explosion occured. With 

 a terrific roar that beaver dam was shot 

 toward the sky and toward every point 

 of the compass, and the water above 

 the dam came rushing through a gap 

 twenty feet wide. A later examination 

 proved, that the dam had been torn out 

 clear to the bottom of the river. Our 

 hand-made breaks had extended only 

 to the surface of the water below the 

 dam. 



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