The house in the water- a book of animal stories (1908) (14578653810)

Identifier: houseinwaterbook00robe (find matches)
Title: The house in the water: a book of animal stories
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ar with tree-felling. Some branchessnapped, some sticks flew up and dropped, therewas a shuddering confusion in the crystal air for afew seconds, then, the stillness fell once more. But now there was not a beaver to be seen. Jabewondered if they had been scared by the results oftheir own work; or if one of their sentinels hadcome and peered into the thicket from the rear. Asminute after minute dragged by, and nothing hap-pened, he began to realize that his muscles wereaching savagely from their long restraint. He wason the point of moving, of whispering to ask theBoy what it meant, when the latter, divining hisunrest, stealthily laid a restraining hand upon hisarm. He guessed that the beavers were on the alert,hiding, and watching to see if any of their enemiesshould be attracted by the noise. Not five seconds later, however, he forgot hisaches. Appearing with uncanny and inexplicablesuddenness, there was the big pioneer again, sittingup by the tdgt of the canal. As before, he sat ab-
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< Z < U w K h rt o (3H .;■- 8 CO D OJ Q < -; § .< w Q wonder what a piece of logso short and thick — not much more than threefeet long — would be doing there. No beaverswould waste time cutting up a twelve-inch log intolengths like that. A