Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1885-06-26
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SO ASsAn g AAaReA among tn9 STU
cles disposed q Vas beavez-akin caps
which waz made sevanty~one years aso
Ont q the fur d the lass beaver ever
captured il The Ohemung Valley i not
In TIE State. The beaver was killed by
the father q Orvin Mapes, alter i he'd
been hunted Tor twenty years.
There we're very lew beavers Left II
the waters q this State q Pennsylvania
y lT9A when Benjamin Patterson.
noted hunter and trapper q those days,
discovered : colony u Mud Creek
tributary q the Upper Ohemung River.
This was the aKsf colony Of beavers
that had been found thereabout for
some years. Patterson set his trap,
and caught beaver every night tor
seven nights. On the eighth night 9
beaver escaped nom the trap, and LETT
one Of is hind legs ia Il.
II j . peculiarly Of the beaver family
that If ell the members Of colony but
one are captured or die. the survivor
will never again seek another colony Or
follow the regular life Of . beaver, but
will become q wanderer. hiding where
ever e cam ana displaying cunning
and sagaciky that were strange 70 is
when il lived IN colony. After
finding the beavers leg ~ ma trap, ana
falling 20 capture any more O the AMI
mails, Patterson knew that ne had taken
all but one q the entire colony, and
that that one had become crippled
wanderer.
These solitary beavers were called
tramps by some trappers, and bachelors
BY others. Patterson lost track Of the
missing beaver but the next year ne
came upon signs o. Il. He could not
find Its hiding places, however, and Tor
i've years ne followed the crippled
beaver mp and down the Chemung and
its branches, always on its trail, but
never succeeding u outwitting Its cum
nlng. Al the en0 o. nve years Fatter-
son declared that the beaver bore 9
charmed life. and there was no use IN
wasting time on Il. his brother Rich
ard thought differently, and continued
the search for the bachelor beaver. IL
was heard OF all over the valley, first IN
one place then u another; but Patter-
son nad no better luck u trapping lot !.
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