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Title: The house in the water: a book of animal stories
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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p a beaver onland yere like to lose him one way or another.Hes got so much purchase, on land, with thingsto git hold on to; hes jest as like as not to twisthis leg clean off, an git away. If its one of hisfore legs, which is small an slight, ye know, hesmost sure to twist it off. An sometimes hell dothe trick even with a hind leg. Ive caught lots ofbeaver as had lost a fore leg, an didnt seem nonethe worse. The furd growed over it, an they wasslick an hearty. An Ive caught them as had losta hind leg, an they was in good condition. Abeaverll stand a lot, I tell you. But then, sup-posin you git yer beaver, caught so fast he aintno chance whatever to git clear. Then, like as not,some lynx, or wildcat, or fisher, or fox, or evenmaybe a bear, 11 come along an help himself to Mr.Beaver without so much as a by yer leave. No, yewant to git him in the water; an as hes just asanxious to git thar as you are to git him thar, thatsuits all parties to a T. Good! said the Boy, — not that it really
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OR EVEN MAYBE A BEAR. Ube peril of tbe XTraps 9i seemed to him good, but to show that he was at-tending. But, continued Jabe, what would ye saywould most upset the beaver and make em care-less? The Boy thought for a moment. Breaking their dam! he answered tentatively. Egzactly! answered the woodsman. Well,now, to ketch beaver sure, make two or three breaksin their dam, an set the traps jest a leetle waysabove the break, on the upper slope, where theyresure to step into em when hustlin round to mendthe damage. That gits em, every time. Ye chaineach trap to a stake, driven into three or four footof water; an ye drive another stake about a footan a half away from the first. When the beaverfinds himself caught, he dives straight for deepwater, — his way of gittin clear of most of histroubles. But this time he finds it dont work. Thetrap keeps a holt, bitin hard. An in his strugglehe gits the chain all tangled up round the twostakes, an drowns himself. There you have himsafe, where no ly

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