| Show FOOLING BEAVERS now bow the indians banac ta t siuai there la Is small beaver dan dam in cherry creek a few miles above den and the farmer on whose premise premises ses it is located has lots of fun studying the habits of the queer animals the beaver bearer has a scent bag under its tail and when the animals are constructing ting their queer houses or forts one old beaver bearer seems to lead the work and to summon the others to duty by rubbing his breech against a tree and raising an odor this stands in the place of a cu cry tor for the beavers are dumb or nearly so ao the indians were acute observers and learned this habit of the beaver they preserved the beaver stone and when they found a beaver town the hunters would rub the beavers perfume upon some tree half submerged in the water and hiding biding near by await the coming of the workers the beavers would usually respond in numbers and the hunters would shoot them with arrows when the lee ice formed above the tavers heavers pool the hunters would take long spears and breaking the shallow ice above the breathing holes hole of the animals await their coming thither for beavers cannot live long underwater under vater they would then spear them or drag dag them out of the water by the hind bind legs and tomahawk them field and farm |
