Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-09
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By The Beavers
Abused


timber to get rid of it In the sleepy forest where
the languid the
the year a humble hunting fishing
the Indians who had roamed the region before him.
Unlike the aborgines however. Charlie had squaw
to perform the hOmey tasks essential life
simple his Most dreaded Of all these daily chores
the cutting of firewood He got pleasure his
rod and gun but to Charlie choppng wood thanless
task His rusty old seemed to always need stocking
Then he got idea Why not help himself some Of
the logs feled by nearby beaver colony in their dam
building operations? So he did-iberaly. However.
his ackadasica mind began to scheme way out OF
this work Deliberately he tore hole in the beavers dam
which was almost in his camp yard and walked off with
the neatly trimmed logs.
busy animals soon discovered that the water
level in their pond dropping So they began telling
more trees trimming them into logs and floating them
downstream to repair the man-made break their
BY night the beavers worked francaly by day
stole the logs they had brought downstream
Now that he having readycut logs delivered almost
to his door by the unsuspecng beavers Charlie begdged
the small labor to these logs
lengths Again he studied way avoid time
he captured three four beavers and confined them
wire enclosure that had protected his small garden
Inside the enclosure Charlie placed these ready logs
and the captive animals instinct soon gnawed
them into smaller pieces
But the prisoner beavers were ignorant Of Charles
stove length requirements and they the logs
lengths of which long For a time
Charlie stumped but his knowledge life came
to his rescue He knew beavers liked salt he mixed
with water and painted the solution logs at
intervals of 10 inches the right stove The
spots and chewed them greedly little suspectng they
producing sticks Of frewood to order.
Charlie congratulated himself He had evidently solved
ms problem Then there came the time When=it-pras
necessary Charlie pay yearly the out
side to obtain groceries and other supplies his
captive animals plenty of food and logs for them TO cut
and enlarged the hole in beavers could
not complete repairs before he returned
While Charlie away the cutting and driving beav-
got into communication with their who were
confined in the herms and the captves were
released The entire colony then worked dav and night 70
fha hcIo
peey plugged the gap they set out to enlarge the dam
and generally improve II.
They completed this addition and the water in
their pond rapidly and spread additional
In fact the water reached such height
lies camp was partially flooded Then. either by
instinct inspired by humor
animals gnawled the foundation posts Charles cabin
until 1t dropped into the swelling con-
siderable distance from its original
The half submerged cabin landed lopsidedly among some
standing trees while such Of Charles
private property would float kept right going
drfted amessly they caught on twgs here
and there in the flooded
In due time Charlie trail weary happy to be back
home returned-and was he surprised at what he saw
He longer recognized the region with which he had
long been familiar.
wadng and foundering about n the newly-made pond
the puzzled finally caught sight of his ruined
perched precarious angle the very edge the
beaver dam
with roar anger attacked the formidable beaver
barrier determined to tear 1t apart AS he unged about
waistdeep in the roily water he slipped and
with a cultural gurgle and much wild spashing AS he
surface broad flat and very beaver tail
struck him smarty the mouth knocking three
teeth This blow probably unintentiona and was
delivered by frightened trying to escape but
Charlie contends that premedtated deliberate
slap in the face So too believe the flooding
and wreckng woodland home carefully planned
maliciously carried out scheme for revenge and
thought up by boss beaver to pay off Charlie for
stealing many logs
Anyway. "cixebexis" Charlie wrng out his soaked
clothes collected much Of his belongings as he could
find shoudered his "Kenncbeckcr" and hit trail for
Soubungo Mountain establish himself in a region
where frewood is plentiful and beavers scarce.