Subject: The Story of the Beaver

Posted by Michael Round on 3/6/2010

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From Michener's "Centennial" ...

http://www.rationalsys.com/2010mar.html#story20100306


Wise Man:
And the rain kept falling, for many days. It fell until the world was covered with a great flood. And when there were no more mountains left to stand upon, no dry land anywhere, Man above knew there was only one creature who could save the world.

And he called upon the creature to dive down deep below the water, and scoop up sticks and mud with his paws to make a great mound.

The creature worked hard and long, until he had made a new world - a world with mounds and forests and plains, for all the animals.

And only one creature could have saved the world then, one creature alone who can change the world he lives in.

The wisest of all animals on earth.

The beaver.


Son 1:
Is it true?


Son 2:
It's a story.


Pasquinel:
Think about the river and the streams. The beaver still creates a world of its own.


Son 1:
Dams?


Pasquinel:
Where the fast water stops. It becomes a pond. And the insects breed. And the trout feed on the insects. And the saw-billed duck dives for the trout. Muskrats come, and the mink come. And the deer comes to eat the meadowgrass. And the moose comes to eat the watergrass.

It's a new world - and only the beaver can make it.