Ho : The Sewellel or Show’ tl. [ January, 
household goes up on the roof to look for the returning hunters 
or trappers with their spoils. Fur animals are the property of the 
trapper, but he can only claim exclusive right to the skin, sinew, 
fat, tongue, head and belly pieces of a deer. The remainder is 
distributed to any who may need it, or reserved as the common 
property of the house-fellows, if there are no other applicants. 
The wife receives her husband in silence, removes his belts and 
gun case, puts his boots to dry, offers him a bit, of meat and fish, 
and when he has taken his accustomed place, calls his attention 
to the stranger while she prepares the evening meal. This is the 
event of the day. The oil lamp is trimmed and lighted; con- 
versation becomes general ; all eat together, served by the mistress 
of the house, and when the repast is over, tales have been told, 
and the fire burns low, the larger embers are tossed out of the 
smoke hole, the coals carefully covered, the parchment replaced 
to keep in the warm air, beds are unrolled, clothing doffed, and 
the inmates lay themselves head to the fire; the light is put out, 
and in a short time the silence is only broken by an occasional 
nasal indication that the hunter is enjoying his well earned rest. 
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THE SEWELLEL OR SHOW’TL. 
BY S. K.: LUM. 
N the deep evergreen forests of fir, clothing the western slope of 
the Cascade Mountains, in Oregon and Washington Territory, 
is found a singular animal, Haplodon rufus, the natural his- 
tory of which is but little known to scientists. 
It is called by various names in the different localities it inhab- 
its; considering it as new, each settler has named it after some 
- better known animal he fancied it resembled. In Southern Oregon, 
it is found in moist situations on the tops of the Siskiyou and 
Rogue’s River Mountains, and is there called “ mountain beaver.” 
On the head-waters of the many streams flowing westward to the 
Willamette River, it may be seen in great numbers, and is there 
called “ mountain boomer,” “ ground hog,” “ gopher,” “ badger,” 
&c. North of the Columbia River it inhabits nearly all the streams 
rising in the Cascade Mountains and flowing westward to tide 
-_ water,also, on the Cowlitz and other tributaries of the Columbia, and 
in the vicinity of Shoalwater Bay. There it often goes by the Indian 
name of Shote or Show’tl. Its special habitat is the broken hilly 
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