Famous Quotes / John W. Dawson
John W. Dawson: "Some of our artists have the bad taste to represent the beaver as perched on the maple bough, a most unpleasant position for the poor animal, and suggestive of the thought, that he is in the act of gnawing through the trunk of our national tree (the maple)."
| Animal | Artists | Beaver | Bough |
| Gnawing | Maple | Most | National |
| Perched | Poor | Position | Represent |
| Suggestive | Taste | Thought | Through |
| Tree | Trunk | Unpleasant |