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Show Poplar Tree Is Beaver Beaver's Beavers Beaver'sFavorite ' a Favorite Along Streams StreamsBearers Beavers Bearers Bem ers are arc as easy to raise ralse as sheep sheepor sheepor or pigs They are arc more profitable andgive andgive and give less trouble The bpivcr beaver bf1 ' ' ver flourIshes flourishes flour- flour flourislics - - islics Ishes 't\ 't t ' \ wherever 'therever herever the poplar grows , and andwas andwas was once very much nt at home all over overthe overthe the continent from the Mexicin Mexican Me IC'1n IC1n ' border bordernorth bordernorth north , , excepting esceptJng : only the deserts eserts of ofthe ofthe ofthe the barrensFor south and the sub arctic barrens barrensror Importantsource For ror the mtlve n'ltlve nltlve native ' It was an Important source of food nnd and warm clothing , and andthe andthe the value salue . alue of its pelts was responsible tor for attracting the & advance &dvance dvance guard of ofcivilization ofcivilization ofcivilization civilization For a century the beaver beavershin beaverskin skin shin was the standird stand'lrd standlrd stand'ird ' ' of . value salue alue among amongthe the dwellers of the frontier . I , Aa As engineers their architectural In- In IngenUlty Ingenuity - eenulty genUlty genuity Is sufficient to cmble en'1bIe en1bIe en'ible enible ' ' them tovlthst1nl1 tosvltbstznd to vvltbstand \vlthst1nl1 vlthst1nl1 svltbstznd \ thebear . ' their natural enemies , the bear , the wolf wolf , the bob hob wolverine crine isolsorthe cat , the wolver isolsor- isolsor "oh oh " cr- cr - ine the and nnd the otter . , But they are notneirly not notne'lrly notnearly ne'lrly nelrly nearly ' so intelligent as It Is generallv generally generallysupposed generallvsupposed supposed In fact they are so easllY easily easilytrapped easllYtrapped trapped as to be theomost the&most themost theetnost & difficult dlt11cult an anImals Iraals Imals to protect protectt . . In their wild wlId condition condItlon they are frIendly arefriendly and soclible soc1'lble soc1lble sociable ' among them- them - . ' themeelvos eelvos selves , but regard othpr other beavers and all allother alIIother other living thing things , . as us enemies . . , alII |