_crew_ [of beavers]

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/15979

crew n It often- times happend, that a fingle beaver lies retired, and is then ftiled by furriers, a hermit: they fay, it is turned out from the family, becaufe it is lazy and will not work; and what is very fingular (for be the caufe what it will, the fact is certain) all hermit beavers have a black mark on the infide of the fkin upon their backs, called faddle, which diftinguifhes them. I rather think the caufe of hermit beavers to be fidelity; as they are very faithful creatures to their mate; and by some acident or other, loofing that mate, they either will not pair again, or remain fingle until they can find another hermit of the contrary fex; and that the faddle proceeds from the want of a partner to keep their back warm. I am fure that fuppofition is more na- tural, than, that it fhould be turned out becaufe it is lazy; for many of thole hermit beavers do fo much work, that good fur- riers have fomoetimes been deceived, and imagined, they had found a fmall crew. [see 'beaver' etc] PRINTED ITEM W. J. KIRWIN JAN 1973 JH JAN 1973 Used I and Sup Used I 4 Not Used [see 'beaver' etc] CROWD, call crews Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Fri 24 Jun 2016