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Wading the stream below the dam, I hastened to my prizes, finished their last struggles with a stick, seized them by their tails, and dragged them to the spot I had just left; and then, after concealing my traps, with the view of waiting a few days before I set them, so as to give the society a chance to get settled, I tugged the game I had so strangely come by, home to camp, where a more particular examination showed them to be the three largest and best-furred beavers I had ever taken.
The Americans were at work like beavers, strengthening their line with redoubts, felled trees, and batteries, when the enemy was discovered marching against them. There was no good feeling between them. MORGAN'S RIFLEMEN was the most celebrated corps of the Continental Army. The men were unerring marksmen, and on that account greatly feared by the British.
I bought all this furniture in that way; you would not think it, but they have a great many nice things down at Beaver. 'It looks like steamboat furniture. 'That is it; it is. A steamer went to pieces down there, and they saved almost all her furniture and stores; they are very good sailors, the Beavers. 'Wreckers, perhaps?
"What thinks the great chief of the Ottawas now?" asked the governor; "did he imagine that the young white men lie sleeping like beavers in their dams, when the hunter sets his traps to catch them? did he imagine that they foresee not the designs of their enemies? and that they are not always on the watch to prevent them?"
It would be pronounced a fit home for only beavers and seals, and surely its inhabitants, although of a race so bold as to dwell there, ought never to lie down in peace.
We accomplished all this very quietly; and as none that we trapped were ever allowed to go back and `tell the tale, and as at all other seasons the trap was open and free, of course the surviving beavers, with all their sagacity, never knew what became of their companions, and did not even appear to suspect us of foul play, but remained tame as ever.
In the valley of the Yellowstone, which has but lately been much visited by the white man, Hayden saw stumps of trees thirty inches in diameter which had been cut down by beavers. Geological Survey of Wyoming, p. 135. The American beaver closely resembles his European congener, and I believe most naturalists now regard them as identical.
"Why didn't you tell me there were wild animals in the mine?" shouted the cashier. "Let me into that cage immediately!" "Don't be in a hurry," advised Tommy. "All the Wolves and Beavers you'll find in here won't do you any harm!"
Not so loud or you will frighten them away!" "Polly impossible! What do you mean anyway?" "The beavers live there until the family grows too large, then they either build another story to the house, or start a new colony where aspens can be had in plenty. As there are so many young aspens here in perfect security, for the beavers, Grandfather Beaver remains here." "Oh, Polly!
And in the recognition of these truths, the Human society, that excels the society of beavers, bees, and ants, by perpetual and progressive improvement on the notions inherited from its progenitors, rests its basis. Thus, in fact, this world is benefited for men by their belief in the next, while the society of brutes remains age after age the same.
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