{"product_id":"2940014385893","title":"SHAGGYCOAT","description":"_CONTENTS_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    INTRODUCTION                                           11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I. THE FUGITIVES                                       23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II. ALONE IN THE WORLD                                 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    III. THE COURTSHIP OF SHAGGYCOAT                       53\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IV. HOW THE GREAT DAM WAS BUILT                        67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V. A BEAVER LODGE                                      81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VI. HOW THE WINTER WENT                                97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VII. LIFE IN THE WATER WORLD                          111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VIII. A BIT OF TRAGEDY                                125\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IX. STRANGERS AT THE LAKE                             141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X. A TROUBLESOME FELLOW                               163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XI. A BANK BEAVER                                     181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XII. THE BUILDERS                                     195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIII. BEAVER JOE                                      211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIV. RUNNING-WATER                                    225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XV. KING OF BEAVERS                                   243\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVI. OLD SHAG                                         261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_ILLUSTRATIONS_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Reached down and gripped his brother                  _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The final touches were put upon this curious\u003cbr\u003e    dome-shaped house                                   _Facing page_ 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Tearing at their house and filling the night\u003cbr\u003e    with awful sounds                                         \"       96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    The buck gave a mighty leap and fell midway in\u003cbr\u003e    the stream                                                \"      122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    There is where the hunter and hunted met                  \"      193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA FOURFOOTED AMERICAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTORY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust how long the red man, in company with his wild brothers, the deer,\u003cbr\u003ethe bear, the wolf, the buffalo, and the beaver had inhabited the\u003cbr\u003econtinent of North America, before the white man came, is a problem for\u003cbr\u003especulation; but judging from all signs it was a very long time. The\u003cbr\u003eMound Builders of Ohio and the temple builders of Mexico speak to us out\u003cbr\u003eof a dim prehistoric past, but the song and story of the red man and\u003cbr\u003emany a quaint Indian tradition tell us how he lived, and something of\u003cbr\u003ehis life and religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf we look carefully into these quaint tales and folk-lore of the red\u003cbr\u003eman, we shall find that he lived upon very intimate relations with all\u003cbr\u003ehis wild brothers and while he hunted them for meat and used their\u003cbr\u003eskins for garments and their hides for bowstrings, yet he knew and\u003cbr\u003eunderstood them and treated them with a reverence that his white brother\u003cbr\u003ehas never been able to feel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore the red man bent the bow he sought pardon from the deer or bear\u003cbr\u003efor the act that he was about to commit. Often when he had slain the\u003cbr\u003ewild creature, he made offerings to its departed spirit, and also wore\u003cbr\u003eits likeness tattooed upon his skin as a totem. Thus we see that these\u003cbr\u003edenizens of the wilderness were creatures of importance, playing their\u003cbr\u003epart in the life of the red man, even before the white man came to these\u003cbr\u003eshores. But that they should have continued to play a prominent part\u003cbr\u003eafter the advent of the white man is still more vital to us.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175816282352,"sku":"2940014385893","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014385893_p0.jpg?v=1763607376","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014385893","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}