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The villagers gave us the leg of a musk deer, and some red potatos, about as big as walnuts all they could spare from their winter-stock. With this scanty addition to our stores we started down the valley, for a few miles alternately along flat lake-beds and over moraines, till we crossed the stream from the lateral valley, and ascending a little, camped on its bank, at 11,400 feet elevation.
Pray tell it out your own way. You won't tire me, I assure you." So the old man went on. " It was just such a night as this, she began again 'leastways it was snow and not rain that was coming down, as if the Almighty was a-going to spend all His winter-stock at oncet. 'What happened such a night, auntie? I said. 'Ah, my lad! said she, 'ye may well ask what happened. None has a better right.
In summer they vary their diet by eating various kinds of herbage, and such berries as grow near their haunts during that season. When the ice breaks up in the spring the beavers always leave their houses, and rove about until a little before the fall of the leaf, when they return again to their old habitations, and lay in their winter-stock of wood.
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