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"But you just told me you were not making a suit for me," said Brownie. "Quite true, too!" answered Mr. Frog "because it's all finished. So, of course, I'm not making it now." They had stepped inside the shop. And Mr. Frog carefully took some garments off a peg and spread them before Brownie Beaver. "There!" he said with an air of pride. "The finest suit you ever saw!"
He stood, listening, intently watching with alert eyes; the swirr of myriads of little travelling feet caught his quick ear the moving mass was an immense colony of beaver. Thousands upon thousands of them.
Are you going to be long in the woods?" It was a delightful walk all the way up to Rosemount, for Roderick managed to get up courage to ask if he might go all the way, and even kept her at the gate a few minutes before he said good-bye, and he promised, quite of his own accord, to visit Camp Hamilton if it was not far from Beaver Landing, his headquarters, and when he returned he would report to her Billy's progress.
"Yes, sir; and I bore it so well that every one there agreed that I was the best one in the Tribe," said Little Beaver, omitting to mention the fact that he was the only one in it. "I was unanimously named 'Howling Sunrise." "Well, I want to be 'Howling Sunrise," piped Guy in his shrill voice. "You? You don't know whether you can pass at all, you Yaller Mossback."
Take the negro from the south and place him amongst the ice-bergs of the arctic circle and strive to make him accustomed to the hunting of the seal or harpooning of the walrus; or else bring down an Esquimaux and put him into a sugar-cane plantation of the topics. In fact, take a thorough going farmer from the old-country and attempt to accustom him to hunt moose and trap beaver.
Each time that Mother Beaver drew out a splinter this "waist" became more slender still; a very little further, and the tree would have been cut right through, but Mother Beaver knew when to stop. "Come away," she cried quickly to Phil; "at the next gust of wind that tree will fall, and only foolish creatures run knowingly into danger. I should be crushed beneath it if I drew out another splinter.
You were lost when you were a little girl and went out picking berries, and it was only the other day that we heard from a beaver where you were. At these words, the bear came a little way down the tree, and the wolverine, seeing this, went on: 'Are you not fond of berries? I am! And I know a place where they grow so thick the ground is quite hidden. Why, look for yourself!
The result is the house is deserted, and the now frightened beaver are away out somewhere in the pond, swimming under the ice. As soon as the Indians feel confident that all have forsaken the house they hurry out on the pond in the front.
Now it happened that the very day before Paddy the Beaver decided that his pond was big enough, and so allowed the water to run in the Laughing Brook once more, Farmer Brown's boy took it into his head to go fishing in the Smiling Pool. Just as usual he went whistling down across the Green Meadows. Somehow, when he goes fishing, he always feels like whistling.
Just to see a hunter with a terrible gun makes me angry clear through. I'd rather spoil his hunting than eat." "You want to watch out, Sammy. One of these days a hunter will lose his temper and shoot you, just to get even with you," warned Paddy the Beaver. "Don't worry about me," replied Sammy "I know just how far those terrible guns can shoot, and I don't take any chances.
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