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Title: Children's own library
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Burdick, J. Ellis (Jennie Ellis) Welsh, Charles, 1850-1914
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Publisher: New York, National Library Co
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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thewater until it is sufficiently deep for the Beavers pur-poses. The dam is made of branches which the Beavercuts down with its strong, sharp teeth, and mud and stonesworked in among the branches. The Beavers throwthese branches into the water, and sink them to thebottom by means of stones, and by continually throwingin fresh supplies a strong embankment is soon made. The mud and stones used in their embankmentsare not carried on their tails, as some say, nor do theBeavers use their tails as trowels for laying on themud, the fact being that the stones and mud are car-ried between their chin and fore-paws, and the mis-take respecting the tail is evidently caused by the slapthat Beavers give with that member when they dive. Every year the Beavers lay a fresh coating of mudupon their houses, so that after the lapse of a few yearsthe walls of the house are several feet in thickness.Many of the houses are built close together, but no twofamilies can communicate with each other, except by
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Jaguae. woods natural htstort 67 diving below the walls and rising inside their neigh-bors houses. When in captivity the Beaver soon becomes tame, andwill industriously build dams across the corner of a roomwith brushes, boots, fire-irons, books, or anything it canfind. When its edifice is finished, it sits in the centreapparently satisfied that it has made a beautiful struc-ture to dam up the river — a proof that the ingenuityof the Beaver is not caused by reason, but by instinct. The fur of the Beaver, like that of many otheranimals, consists of a fine wool intermixed with longand stiff hairs. Its length is about three and a half feet. The Common Porcupine is found in America, Africa,Tartary, Persia, India, and some parts of Europe. Itlives in holes, which it digs in the-ground, and onlycomes forth at night in order to feed. It eats vege-table substances only, such as roots, bark, and othersimilar substances. The array of spines or quills withwhich this animal is covered forms its

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