Tradition, speaking from the dim and shadowy past, tells us of the vast numbers of these sagacious and harmless animals which congregated in these regions, living in undisturbed quiet and happiness all the year, building their dams, their canals, and cities on all the ponds, rivers, and lakes hereabouts.

But in the two or three places where he found plenty of the bark on which they lived it would have been difficult to have constructed a dam.

So, unable to cope singly with whole tribes of his enemies, he worked to destroy their dams.

"But who would want to blow up the dam?" asked Blake.

" "General, I think the scouts are mistaken," said I, "for the Beaver has more water near its head than it has below; and at the place where we will strike the stream we will find immense beaver dams, large enough and strong enough to cross the whole command, if you wish.

THE WEANING OF CALVES is a process that requires a great amount of care and judgment; for though they are in reality not weaned till between the eighth and the twelfth week, the process of rearing them by hand commences in fact from the birth, the calf never being allowed to suck its dam.

She good, but she don't care a dam' what people say.

" But Miss de Long's voice and tears had burst the dam of control.

March 5, 1830, we find John Overstreet appearing before the County Commissioners' Court at Springfield and averring upon oath "that he is informed and believes that John Cameron and James Rutledge have erected a mill-dam on the Sangamon River which obstructs the navigation of said river;" and the Commissioners issued a notice to Cameron and Rutledge to alter the dam so as to restore the "safe navigation" of the river.

Two instincts were at work: it was natural to follow their dams, but Mireside was their native heath and they knew they were going to be taken home.

A single trunk falling across a stream in the woods forms a dam 200 feet long, and from ten to thirty feet high, giving rise to a pond which kills the trees within its reach.

The inhabitants, therefore, feel no apprehension in taking away the young whenever they find them, knowing the dam is seldom near....

Then one by one, after smelling him, and being touched by his hand, they turned away, and going down into the valley were soon scattered about, most of them grazing, some rolling, others lying stretched out on the grass as if to sleep; while the young foals in the troop, leaving their dams, began playing about and challenging one another to run a race.

"I know that we are taking great precautions, though, to prevent the dam, or the locks, from being damaged.

But that certain level-headed men did "take stock" in those rumors was evident, for elaborate preparations had been made to protect the dam.

On reaching the dam that he had formerly visited, he was agreeably surprised to find that it had been nearly filled by the late rains.

He sat up, and seeing Emett and Jones laughing, and Jim prostrated with joy, he showed his white teeth in a smile and said: "No bueno dam.

At the same time, I contrived to increase my little flock of tame goats as much as I could; and, for this purpose, I made Friday and the Spaniard go out one day, and myself with Friday the next day (for we took our turns,) and by this means we got about twenty young kids to breed up with the rest; for whenever we shot the dam, we saved the kids, and added them to our flock.

With engravings showing the dam on the Ribeirao Inferno at Portao de Ferro, and the arrangement of the machinery. III. ELECTRICITY, ETC.The Frankfort and Offenbach Electric Railway.

Across the lower end of the bed of a brook which was nearly dried up, and in which there were only a few rivulets left running, they had fastened a hurdle of bamboo, and thrown up a shallow dam behind it.

At the Hamiz dam, also in Algeria, the water was admitted in 1884, but it showed immediately signs of weakness, so that the water had to be run out and an immense retaining wall erected to strengthen the main dam.

He began to examine the dam, close down to the foundation.

Ha, by the foul fiend his black dam, ne'er will I drink it, lad!"

I knew that some were to be made of the Canal for Government use, and I thought if I got in with the moving picture operators I would have a good chance, and good excuse, for approaching the dam without being suspected.

They fixed a dam that ruined my place.