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# Explanation of "Sunday-School Stories" (No. IV) This page presents a fable about beavers building a dam, framed as a moral lesson for children. The story illustrates a labor dispute: when beavers must cut trees to build a dam, a wealthy "adipose beaver" claims ownership of the bark (representing money/profit), while refusing to share control. The working beavers refuse to continue labor until bark distribution is settled fairly. The satire targets **labor disputes and class conflict** of the Gilded Age. The "adipose" (fat, wealthy) beaver represents capitalists hoarding resources, while the colony represents workers demanding equitable treatment. The moral, attributed to "Hubert O. Thompson," ironically asks whether giving "a man with an aim" is wise—questioning capitalist ambition without social conscience. The cartoons above likely show related political commentary, though their specific subjects aren't clearly legible in this reproduction.
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Ly hide and whiskers on it, the adipose beaver who had su: schem he stream be damned, then iding beaver, and on putting the tion to vote such seemed to be the prevailing sense of the assembly, But the question now arose, Ho: stream to be dammed, and by whom F though beavers in general, anid espec beave: i, dam a go present promised to tude that the on. at it for a moment. “If it must be done, iet it be done,” s presiding beaver. I will undertake the work, pose beaver, Hear, hea sembled. “ But if [undertake the work, it is up the understandi for my assistanc naturally stood agh th * chorused the beavers and carrie ¥ of beavers lived py and nd supplied food} from their bark, and building material from or me ht threaten- swith a water ony wats considerable ad- inquired the presiding bea- answere sted th 1 the was the ally the s in which we are at present interest- 1d deal upon occasion, yet the 4 job of such magni- said the adi- that the colony must unite ‘They must labor upon the OF THE spicious loki ediately put upon bis TIMES. Ata convenient timeand p) he arrounded, held searched. Thisis what they found. dam or provide substitute they must cut down required for the work Phis mediatel, have been thought little y-whisk an obscure ve cut down the trees who is to have the bar tion created tion, for bark is valued am as money is valued “Oh, Vil take char adipose beaver. “Oh no, you wont! “the ko must mong all of u pongh, and was im- and nothing more would f the matter h dl beaver pi And nd 1 not one up from n= » when w profound ser mig, beavers mnt men eof tha Iry h said the on vod chorw bl be And right on that que and the dam is not b is rapidly running out of water, but the del sppointed to consider the dam a lock, ‘Their bark is worse than their p, and they refuse to bite down a sing! till they know exactly where the bark is to. ‘The adipose beav ntainst e bark which is picked from the trees usec the dam is nothing more than the legitimate pickings of the j the beavers in general think that they as well do without water as have th tion issue was join- for iltvet. The colony er, WW re- ith ter . whole stripped of bark for the benefit of aver. | have less water but more bark, Will Hubert 0. ‘Thompson kindly run over the principal features of tl aqueduct scheme in his mind, and furnish us with w moral for the foregoin, new r, GIVE usa man with an aim exchange. Quite so; but before THE JUDGE echoes this aspiration he wants to make up his mind what use he is going to put the man towhen he gets him. If we want him to shoot prairie chicken and quail for market, or if we desire to match him against Carver or Bogardus, by all means give us a man with anaim. But if'we are likely to fall in love with any of his female relatives, or to tread on his favorite corn, or to interchange Texan compliments with him, the less aim he has the better he will suit us, Wuat relation is the stoop? 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