. Trails and tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland . s of the fish. At the mouthof every stream the merganser loiters withher family to take toll; the kingfisher makesits morning call along the route; the loon,swimming gracefully around the projectingwillows that quiver in the gentle current,disappears like a flash, and another is addedto the tally; the osprey soaring through theair takes a dive beneath the surface andbrings up one of the finny tribe, then makesa true line to the top of the old dead tree-stump, where the young are waiting withstretched necks and open mouths to receivetheir allotme
. Trails and tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland . s of the fish. At the mouthof every stream the merganser loiters withher family to take toll; the kingfisher makesits morning call along the route; the loon,swimming gracefully around the projectingwillows that quiver in the gentle current,disappears like a flash, and another is addedto the tally; the osprey soaring through theair takes a dive beneath the surface andbrings up one of the finny tribe, then makesa true line to the top of the old dead tree-stump, where the young are waiting withstretched necks and open mouths to receivetheir allotment. While we anchored to an old snag that haddrifted with the current into an eddy, thereappeared from the depths the head of a musk-rat, moving gracefully around m a semi-circle and throwing off little wavelets that A Trip to Newfoundland 217 broadened as they approached the cast of the fly frightened His Majesty,and with a whack of his tail on the waterhe disappeared, but erelong again came tothe surface. What a contrast in the dis-. Solitude position of the muskrat and its cousin, thebeaver! The latter loves solitude and buildsits lodge in the most inaccessible places thatcan be found in the fastness of the uninhabitedmountains and along some stream where thefoot of man seldom treads. The other colonizesnear civilization in some old dam or water-way thrown up by man. Under the protection 2i8 A Trip to Newfoundland of the law, beaver are becoming more plentiful,and occasionally at the mouths of little creekscan be seen limbs of birch and willow freshlypeeled; if the winding course of the streamis followed, you are sure to come upon adam, lately completed by a pair that haveof their own accord left the old lodge to seektheir fortune in a new home. The dam isusually constructed first and then the lodgea short distance above, and wonderful in thebuilding of the dam and lodge is the skill ofthis little animal, known as the King of theRodents. A little way below, the wat
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