This took me into a ride, I must admit most of your writings do I have been in so many I can't remember if you have always decided to go for this, I will have to look.... This to me is saying that some hunters out of their own ignorance were passing by, one of them smoking his pipe the ashes travel and the beaver house catches fire!
in all honesty I just got the visuals ... I suppose it derives from when i did the ten day Vipassana Silent meditation up in the hills and at one point I was sure there was a family of beavers camping out on my upper lip ...
so for me ... it was papa Beaver lounging back in his rocking chair on the farms porch, smoking his pipe after dinner ...
I wonder if more will drop down from the universe later on :)