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Show Beavers' Teeth. The beaver is really a sort of portable porta-ble pulp mill, grinding up most any kind ot wood that comes his way, 1 once measured a white birch tree twenty-two inches through, cut down by a beaver. A single beaver, generally, If not always, al-ways, amputates the tree, and when It comes down the whole, family fall m and have a regular frolic with the bark and branches. A big beaver will bring town a fair sized sappling, say three inches through, in about two minutes, and a large tree in about an hour. One of the queerest facts about be beaver is the rapidity wltn which his long, chisel shaped teeth will recover from an injury. I have known beavers to break their teeth in biting a trap, and when I caught them again ten days afterward you couldn't see a sign of the break. The teeth had grown out to their tor" imer perfection in that short period. |
