. Big game hunting in Africa and other lands; the appearance, habits, traits of character and every detail of wild animal life ... Hunting -- Africa; Animal behavior. THE STORY OF THE BEAVER. "Working like a beaver" is a common expression and means exactly what it says, for there is no creature possessed of greater industry than this little fur-bearing animal found along the streams of North America and some of the larger European rivers such as the Rhone and Danube. If men were like beavers everybody would have a house of his own built by himself. The beaver's house, or "lodge,
. Big game hunting in Africa and other lands; the appearance, habits, traits of character and every detail of wild animal life ... Hunting -- Africa; Animal behavior. THE STORY OF THE BEAVER. "Working like a beaver" is a common expression and means exactly what it says, for there is no creature possessed of greater industry than this little fur-bearing animal found along the streams of North America and some of the larger European rivers such as the Rhone and Danube. If men were like beavers everybody would have a house of his own built by himself. The beaver's house, or "lodge," as it is called, is a hollow mound of sticks, mud and stones, forming a cave-like chamber. The floor is always above the water line and is made smooth and hard by mixing twigs with mud and beating them into a solid mass. The beaver builds his lodge on the bank of a stream, or on an island in the stream, with the entrance under the water. To prevent its freezing up in the winter he first builds a dam across the stream and deepens the water. As beavers live together in what are called "towns," every inhabitant of the town assists in building the dam and keeping it in repair. With their strong, long, sharp, yellow teeth they cut down immense trees, and are so expert in this work that the trees always fall toward the dam. The branches of the trees are dragged to the stream and laid lengthwise in the current. Sometimes heavy stones are dropped on them to keep them in place. Meanwhile other beavers roll heavy logs from the forest to the dam, pushing them over and over with their strong noses. 55. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lundeberg, Axel; Seymour, Frederick H. A. [Chicago, D. B. McCurdy
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