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sufficiently cheap and otherwise desirable, it is not a matter of loss 

 to this industry that so few skins are now offered, as the enormous 

 supplies of horns and hoofs must easily compensate for any shortage 

 consequent on the altered uses of the beaver skins which to-day, the 

 furrier claims as well as the fur. It is hard to admit that the use- 

 fulness of the beaver has passed, and the world unsympathetically 

 banishes it without a thought of the wonderous value in has been. 

 But this is an unsentimental age, and progress is no respecter of per- 

 sons or animals, so we must face the matter squarely and prepare to 

 pay our tribute to the last of the great beaver host which will soon 

 leave us forever. 



BEAVER FUR, 



MAGNIFIED 25O DIAMETERS. 



From Photo-micrograph by Mr. Albert Holden, Vice-President Montreal Camera Club. 



