We regret it, because the beaver is a gentle, peaceable, affectionate, hairy little creature, towards which one feels an irresistible tenderness.

The beaver, as everybody knows, is a builder, who cuts down trees and piles log upon log until he has raised a solid, domed cabin from seven to twenty feet in diameter, which he then plasters over with clay and straw.

William Beaver, better known ten years ago as "Beaver Bill," is now a quiet and prosperous agriculturalist in the Steal Valley.

It always seemed to Pete that he was a broker exactly as a beaver is a dam-builder, because nature had adapted him to that task.

This Beaver is a clever fellow, and we get on first rate together.

We soon find that the beaver is a hollow cast of the skull, with all its irregular bumps and depressions.

The beaver was his special crown of dignity.

In this the beavers were the masters of men.