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November, 1922 
ner bank of certain trees, on grass, and 
on some bulbous plants. Beaver never 
gnaw through a leg caught in a trap ; 
they will, however, twist the leg off if 
they can get the. trap wound around a 
log or a stake. Many writers are in 
error concerning this habit. Beaver do 
not know how to fell a tree into a loca- 
tion best adapted to their purposes. 
Beaver cannot remain under water to 
exceed a few minutes ; they breathe air, 
travel on land and in water, and they 
are not predacious. Beaver castoreum, 
a substance contained in beaver castors, 
is no longer valuable as a medicine. 
Formerly it was used as a stimulant and 
as an antispasmodic, but better remedies 
have displaced it. Castoreum is now 
used in the manufacture of perfumery. 
The average price for large castors is 
from seventy-five cents to one dollar. 
/^NE day, while canoeing down the 
river, I saw a black bear going up 
a cut bank about a quarter of a mile 
away. Evidently he had been feeding in 
the brush, had gone to the river for a 
drink, and was returning to resume 
feeding. We headed toward the spot, 
landed a little above it, and I went into 
the brush. One who has never been in 
the undergrowth of the northern British 
Columbia forests cannot appreciate the 
density of their jungles. Fortune, how- 
ever, favored me, for I hit upon a fairly 
open game trail and slowly made my way 
along it toward the point where the bear 
went in. I made a slight noise in tread- 
ing on the dry leaves; so did the bear. 
My hearing is acute; so is the bear’s. 
Each heard the other. The wind was in 
my favor, thus rendering naught the 
bear’s sense of smell. The bear (accord- 
ing to the nature of bears) rose up to 
see the object he had heard. A bear’s 
sense of sight is dull ; mine is keen. He 
failed to make me out, but I saw his 
shadowy form in the brush not more 
than sixty feet away. His ears seemed 
unusually prominent. The shot crushed 
his spine and I heard his struggles. I 
went up to him; he was biting his paw 
and snapping his teeth; I shot him in 
the head. This bear I killed unaided by 
my companion, who came to me after 
the first shot. Every element of the 
chase was in my favor. Had one of 
them been in the bear’s favor, I should 
not even have had a glimpse of him. 
-ON LOUISIANA 
MARSHES 
(Continued from page 489) 
followed him with alacrity, unwilling to 
miss a moment of the impending comedy. 
The skipper, flushed from his duties 
over the stove, gave us cheery greeting 
and his son-in-law, engrossed in the 
cleaning of his gun, looked up long 
enough to congratulate me in hearty 
sportsmanlike fashion on the success that 
had attended my morning’s shoot. 
“There is something in the sight of 
fried poule_ d’eau that excites the cap- 
tain and his henchman to mirth,” said 
Jacques, as we drew up a bench to the 
table. “Let’s show them, Skipper.” 
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