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ERY much has been written about the beaver and all of 
vi our forest animals by the scientists, giving their history 
complete, so all that is left us (fortunately, perhaps) is some 
minor points. These also interesting to us, they must neces- 
sarily skip and leave to the trapper, as ‘‘Old Boreas” would 
surely coagulate the very marrow in their bones, should they 
invade his playgrounds and bleak territory, sitting around upon 
the breezy ridges or humped up upon a hillock on the barren 
in all kinds of weather, watching the manouvering of the 
animals. To be quickly convinced of the beaver’s apparent 
superiority over many of the forest animals, one should ex- 
amine his works, and watch an industrious family building a 
large dam, flowing many acres of low land, changing it to a 
lake, and see their cuttings, from the smallest shoots or 
sprouts, to trees fourteen inches in diameter. His idea of 
building the dam, causing the water to flow far back, giving 
him a swimming chance (up and down what was before but 
a shallow run) to his new wood lot that he has discovered, 
making for himself a new lake or pond of his own over this 
small brook running through the lowland, and giving sufh- 
