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CASTOROLOGIA. 



The hungry animal will come again to repeat his labors, but it 

 must be cunning, indeed, if it would overcome the devices of the 

 professional trapper. 



Should the Guardian Spirit of the beaver kitten protect its life 

 through the experiences of two more years, the parental nest is left, 

 when the creature completes its third year ; and the age of maturity 

 brings its responsibilities involving the building of another lodge, 

 and the repetition of the various phases of life, which for generations 

 have gone on ; though each year not only are the families thinned, 

 but whole colonies are mercilessly slaughtered in the efforts to 

 satisfy the whims of fashion or a thoughtless greed for wealth. 



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THE LARGE YELLOW POND LILY. 



{Niipliar Advena.) 



SHOWING THB RHIZOME OR ROOT-STEM ON WHICH THE BEAVER FEEDS. 



