132 ROMANCE OF THE BEAVER 
was, the survivors remained hidden in the pond all 
that night and the following day, and then, filled 
with fear lest their enemies might return, they 
hastened forward toward their destination, which 
was reached without further mishap. Then came 
the question of whether it would be better to make 
one pond and all live together in two houses, or 
whether two separate ponds should be made. The 
stream was small and the contour of the land did 
not offer facilities for making a large pond as the 
valley was narrow. So after careful investigation 
they made two narrow, long ponds within a few 
hundred yards of each other. The lower one 
received an additional supply of water from a second 
stream which joined the main one about a hundred 
yards above the place where they decided to put 
the dam. 
It is unnecessary to relate how they carried on 
all the work for the new colony, as the methods 
differed in no essential way from what has already 
been told. The same sort of dams were built, 
except that more stone was used and more dry 
wood. The supply of mud being very limited, 
owing to the rapidity of the stream, the dam was 
largely filled in with sod, clumps weighing fifteen 
or twenty pounds being dragged into position. 
Two lodges were built, one in each pond. Six 
beavers lived in the upper lodge and twelve in the 
lower one. The entire work was completed before 
the cold weather began, and we may well leave 
