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Beaver.
Barretto - June 10-11-(cont.) p.3.
and I either over looked it, or it
has been built since. This
whole construction is only two
years old, and apparently it has
taken a year's work on the dam,
to make sufficient depth of
water to accomodate a horse.
The house was photographed.
Three small dams were
noted below the big dam. These
were only across the creek bed
itself and were about 10 ft
long and two or three feet high.
We saw one beaver at 3:45 P.M.
June 10. It was swimming about
in the water and slapped his
tail 3 times.
We returned about 6:30 P.M.
and were standing about 30 ft. back
of the dam, and I had just noted
a well-trodden runway leading
from the creek-bed below the fund,
over the dam, when a big fellow
waddled up from below, noticed
us momentarily, and then moved
on rather deliberately to the top of
the dam and dived into the water!