62 Tue Aroostook Woops. 

usually built at the narrows of a stream, where often the large 
rocks help much to aid them in lodging their first logs. The 
undertaking is usually commenced at the driest time, or lowest 
stage of water in the fall of the year, and the labor mostly 
performed by the strong, happy, earnest workers during the 
moonlight nights and the dark rainy days. They are com- 
posed of all kinds of cuttings from fair sized trees, divided in 
suitable lengths, down to the smallest shrubs. The branches 
laid lengthwise, crossed, twined and-intertwined by the busy 
workers. Sods, rocks and mosses, and in fact everything 
handy and available that they can carry in their teeth or 
beneath their arm, is utilized, until they have the required 
height to. flow back sufficient water above. Then with the 
help of the current, which is constantly bringing down the 
many leaves and loose grasses and immense quantities of 
drifting fragments, that all settle in over their network of 
twigs and branches, they are at last rewarded with a strong, 
tight dam, flowing back the water and changing a shallow 
stream to a much deeper one, giving them a nice deep pool 
in front of their winter homes and for their storehouse. 
Standing upon the old beaver dam and looking down the 
narrower, rocky, more rapid stream below as far as the eye 
can see, runs the laughing water, white among the rocks, 
dark and silent in the pools. These are deeply shaded by 
spruce, fir and alder, rock and fern, and where, if you rest 
your eye a moment when the sun is creeping to the west, or 
in the early morning when it: is gilding the eastern hills and 
the dew is sparkling on the ferns, and dripping in the pool 
from every branch.and bush above, you can see the ‘‘ speckled 
beauty” turn a somersault in the air and go down with a 
splash. This sends a thrill over you and you may forget for 
