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into the water, will often call beaver : 
from their lodge in the daytime. Once |{ 
the trapper tapped his gun-stock three 
or four times with a knife. In less than 
a minute a beaver emerged from his 
lodge and swam about until he saw us, 
then he returned into the lodge. The 
water was clear, though deep, and we 
could plainly see every movement as he 
came out and swam around. Of course, 
the entrance to a beaver lodge must be 
beneath the water. 
Upon another occasion we were near 
a lodge located in a pond whose waters 
were not clear. Again the same noise 
was made. After waiting several min- 
utes and neither beaver nor ripple ap- 
pearing on the surface we turned to go. 
As we did so there was a plash a few 
feet in our rear. The beaver had come 
through a little underground canal to a 
small pool near where we stood and had 
evidently been watching us all the time. 
One beaver pond that I saw covered 
thirty or forty acres. There were sev- 
eral dams in and about it, one being 
about four hundred feet in length. 
While walking along a small stream, we 
found that a pair of beaver had recently 
set up housekeeping on their own ac- 
count, for here was a small dam in proc- 
ess of construction with the evidences 
of much recent work. Returning about 
two weeks later we found the dam much 
higher and broader, and the beginning 
of an extensive pond. 
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'THE caprice of fashion was the prin- j 
^ cipal cause for the early slaughter | 
of beaver and it was the caprice of i 
fashion that stayed the hand of extermi- 
nation. The hats of our great grand- , 
fathers were made of beaver fur, and 
such hats were in great demand both in 
Europe and America. That sometimes 
droll, sometimes pathetic, poet, Thomas 
Hood, wrote: 
“The Quaker loves an ample brim, 
A hat that bows to no salaam, 
And dear the beaver is to him 
As if it never made a dam.” 
It was to supply skins for making hats 
that the great trading companies entered 
into a competition remarkable for its 
intensity. After several years, beaver 
hats were displaced in fashion’s favor by 
silk hats and the beaver ceased to be an 
object of pitiless persecution. Later, 
nutria (which is the fur of the coypu, a 
South American animal resembling the 
beaver) came into use for various pur- 
poses and divided the burden borne by 
the beaver. 
Lewis and Clark reported that beaver 
existed in multitudes at the head waters 
of the Missouri. All sportsmen have 
read with interest of the methods em- 
ployed which almost exterminated the 
buffalo, the antelope, the elk, and the 
mountain sheep. Why should not a re- 
liable account of the expeditions of the 
beaver trappers of old be equally inter- 
esting and instructive? What methods 
were employed to deplete the multitudes 
of beaver seen by Lewis and Clark ? In 
that intensely interesting work of Alex- 
ander Ross, “The Fur Hunters of the 
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