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actual observers are so very limited that each record is of great 

 value, especially now that the opportunities for study are so quickly 

 passing ; and it is a pleasure to refer to the article by H. P. Wells, 

 in Harper's Magazine for January, 1889, which furnishes a chapter 

 on beaver hunting, as carefully written as it is beautifully illustrated. 



The next generation must accept our statements as we accept 

 the accounts of the European beaver, and must regard our descrip- 

 tions with the same credulity as we do the statement that ' ' beaver 

 hunting, anciently, was a favorite sport on the continent, if not in 

 England." 



THE DEADFALL 

 (as now used for mink or sable.) 



