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If he stuck his head out of the water now and then for a breath of air, he was careful to let no one see him. He did not even bid the Beaver family good-by at the end of his visit, but left in the middle of the day, when everybody was sound asleep. Grandaddy Beaver said it was no more than one could expect of a person so rude as Timothy Turtle.
Brownie Beaver almost wished he hadn't spent so much time waiting for Grandaddy to tell him to tie down his house so it wouldn't be carried away by the big wind on the following day. With no rope or anything else to tie the house with, Brownie could not see that Grandaddy's advice was of any use to him.
He had happened to glance around while he was talking; and to his surprise there was Grandaddy floating in the water close behind him. "He certainly is," everybody agreed. "But we hope he's mistaken about the great wind." When Tuesday came which was the very next day Brownie Beaver crept into his tunnel in the bank at sunrise. And he never came outside again until the sun had set.
He's goin' to board with us, and I want to tell you right now that he is from good stock; his grandaddy was the captain of the company that my daddy fit in durin' the Creek war, and from what I learn I don't reckon there was ever sich fightin' before nor since. What are they doin' over at the General's?" "Nothing much," Alf answered.
"Why, you see," answered the other, only too willing to explain to the best of his ability, "ma, she sent me over on an errand to the Condit house. I was madder'n hops about it, too, because I just knew I'd be keepin' the fellows waiting here under the Grandaddy Oak."
"Here's this fine dam, which has taken so many years to build, and it's a-going to be washed away you mark my words!" "What makes you think that?" asked Brownie. "There's nobody here to do anything," said Grandaddy Beaver. "The spillways of this dam ought to be made as big as possible, to let the freshet pass through. But I can't do it, for I can't swim as well as I could once."
"He's afraid of the cyclone to-morrow," Tired Tim piped up, without waiting for Brownie to answer. "You know, old Grandaddy Beaver says that there's going to be a great wind. This young feller " said Tim "he's already dug a house in the bank near mine ha! ha! He thinks Grandaddy knows. But I say that Grandaddy Beaver is a a fine, noble, old gentleman," Tired Tim stammered.
I doubt if Father would know, if he were here. He and Grandaddy might exchange quips or gibes over the matter of sales or production but they didn't broadcast as to funds on hand. "Truly, I don't care to know how much money is in Grandaddy's keyster, that's his affair. But it's irksome and tragic not to know one's limitations.
"'Come, now, give us your hand, Grandaddy Gobseck, and be magnanimous if this is "true" and "possible" and "precisely so."
It nettled him, and so, losing his temper, he said to Philip, "Mind your business." "Just hear Grandaddy Parker, the old gentleman in the bob-tailed coat," said Philip. "You are a puppy," said Paul. But he was vexed with himself for having said it.
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