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SHAGGYCOAT
The Biography of a Beaver
by CLARENCE HAWKES
Author of Black Bruin, The Biography of a Bear
Shovelhorns, The Biography of a Moose, etc.
Illustrations by
CHARLES COPELAND
PHILADELPHIA
MACRAE SMITH COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1906,
By George W. Jacobs & Company
All rights reserved
Printed in U. S. A.
Dedicated to my Little Brother, the Venetian, who, living in a house that his hands have made, surrounded by a moat of his own device, the head of a large family and a citizen in a goodly community, is more like man in his mode of life, than any other of God's creatures.
Reached down and gripped his brother
KING OF ALL THE BEAVERS
Till he came unto a streamlet
In the middle of the forest,
To a streamlet still and tranquil,
That had overflowed its margin,
To a dam made by the beavers,
To a pond of quiet water,
Where knee-deep the trees were standing,
Where the water-lilies floated,
Where the rushes waved and whispered.
On the dam stood Pau-Puk-Keewis,
On the dam of trunks and branches,
Through whose chinks the water spouted,
O'er whose summit flowed the streamlet.
From the bottom rose the beaver,
Looked with two great eyes of wonder,
Eyes that seemed to ask a question,
At the stranger Pau-Puk-Keewis.
In the middle of the forest,
To a streamlet still and tranquil,
That had overflowed its margin,
To a dam made by the beavers,
To a pond of quiet water,
Where knee-deep the trees were standing,
Where the water-lilies floated,
Where the rushes waved and whispered.
On the dam stood Pau-Puk-Keewis,
On the dam of trunks and branches,
Through whose chinks the water spouted,
O'er whose summit flowed the streamlet.
From the bottom rose the beaver,
Looked with two great eyes of wonder,
Eyes that seemed to ask a question,
At the stranger Pau-Puk-Keewis.
—Longfellow.
| Introduction | 11 | |
| I. | The Fugitives | 23 |
| II. | Alone in the World | 39 |
| III. | The Courtship of Shaggycoat | 53 |
| IV. | How the Great Dam was Built | 67 |
| V. | A Beaver Lodge | 81 |
| VI. | How the Winter Went | 97 |
| VII. | Life in the Water World | 111 |
| VIII. | A Bit of Tragedy | 125 |
| IX. | Strangers at the Lake | 141 |
| X. | A Troublesome Fellow | 163 |
| XI. | A Bank Beaver | 181 |
| XII. | The Builders | 195 |
| XIII. | Beaver Joe | 211 |
| XIV. | Running-Water | 225 |
| XV. | King of Beavers | 243 |
| XVI. | Old Shag | 261 |
| Reached down and gripped his brother | Frontispiece |
| The final touches were put upon this curious dome-shaped house | Facing page 86 |