Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · London : Macmillan & Co. · leaf 158
EiG, 38. — Beavers at Work. FURRY FRIENDS 145 sometimes as much as a foot in thickness.Limbs, bark, mud, and stones also are used. How do you suppose a small animal can cutdown a tree ? Beavers have very strong teeth,and as they work in companies and are veryindustrious, they accomplish a great… … Fig. 39. — Trees gnawed by Beavers. The beavers make the dams so that thewater around their lodges will be too deep tofreeze during the winter. What harm wouldfreezing do? Long ago beaver hats were very commonboth in our country and in England. In the 146 HOW WE ARE CLOTHED year 1638 the English…
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