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CASTOROLOGIA. 



viewing the tree from every side the animal advances and begins 

 cutting at the side opposite to that on which it is to fall," is 

 hardly borne out by the curiously carved stump illustrated in 

 this chapter. Then accounts are so frequently repeated that " the 

 beaver never allows a tree to ' fork ' in falling, ' ' that there appears 

 to be some novelty in the discovery within a small area, of three 



STUMP SHOWING THAT METHODS OF CUTTING DISAGREE. 



