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    The Tale of Brownie Beaver
    The Tale of Brownie Beaver
    The Tale of Brownie Beaver
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    The Tale of Brownie Beaver

    By Arthur Scott Bailey

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    Release dateJun 1, 2004

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      The Tale of Brownie Beaver - Arthur Scott Bailey

      Project Gutenberg's The Tale of Brownie Beaver, by Arthur Scott Bailey

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Tale of Brownie Beaver

      Author: Arthur Scott Bailey

      Posting Date: January 26, 2013 [EBook #6754] Release Date: October, 2004 First Posted: January 23, 2003

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF BROWNIE BEAVER ***

      Produced by Phil McLaury, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

      [Illustration: Mr. Frog Had Been Hiding Among the Lily-pads]

      THE TALE OF BROWNIE BEAVER

      BY

      ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY

      CONTENTS

      I A QUEER PLACE TO LIVE

      II HOW TO FELL A TREE

      III STICKS AND MUD

      IV THE FRESHET

      V BROWNIE SAVES THE DAM

      VI A HAPPY THOUGHT

      VII A NEWFANGLED NEWSPAPER

      VIII MR. CROW IS UPSET

      IX THE SIGN ON THE TREE

      X A HOLIDAY

      XI BAD NEWS

      XII GRANDADDY BEAVER THINKS

      XIII A LUCKY FIND

      XIV WAS IT A GUN?

      XV JASPER JAY'S STORY

      XVI LOOKING PLEASANT

      XVII BROWNIE ESCAPES

      XVIII MR. FROG'S QUESTION

      XIX THE NEW SUIT

      I

      A QUEER PLACE TO LIVE

      The village near one end of Pleasant Valley where Farmer Green often went to sell butter and eggs was not the only village to be seen from Blue Mountain. There was another which Farmer Green seldom visited, because it lay beyond the mountain and was a long distance from his house. Though he owned the land where it stood, those that lived there thought they had every right to stay there as long as they pleased, without being disturbed.

      It was in this village that Brownie Beaver and his neighbors lived. It was a different sort of town, too, from the one where Farmer Green went each week. Over beyond Blue Mountain all the houses were built in a pond. And all their doors were under water. But nobody minded that because—like Brownie Beaver—everybody that dwelt there was a fine swimmer.

      Years and years before Brownie's time his forefathers had come there, and finding that there were many trees in the neighborhood with the sort of bark they liked to eat—such as poplars, willows and box elders—they had decided that it was a good place to live. There was a small stream, too, which was really the beginning of Swift River. And by damming it those old settlers made a pond in which they could build their houses.

      They had ideas of their own as to what a house should be like—and very good ideas they were—though you, perhaps, might not care for them at all. They wanted their houses to be surrounded by water, because they thought they were safer when built in that manner. And they always insisted that a door leading into a house should be far beneath the surface of the water, for they believed that that made a house safer too.

      To you such an idea may seem very strange. But if you were chased by an enemy you might be glad to be able to swim under water, down to the bottom of a pond, and slip inside a door which led to a winding hall, which in its turn led upwards into your house.

      Of course, your enemy might be able to swim as well as you. But maybe he would think twice—or even three times—before he went prowling through your crooked hall. For if you had enormous, strong, sharp teeth—with which you could gnaw right through a tree—he would not care to have you seize him as he poked his head around a corner in a dark passage of a strange house.

      It was in a house of that kind that Brownie Beaver lived. And he built it himself, because he said he would rather have a neat, new house than one of the big, old dwellings that had been built many years before, when his great-great-grandfather had helped throw the dam across the stream.

      The dam was there still. It was so old that trees were growing on it. And there was an odd thing about it: it was never finished. Though Brownie Beaver was a young chap, he worked on the dam sometimes, like all his neighbors. You see, the villagers kept making the dam wider. And since it was built of sticks and mud, the water sometimes washed bits of it away: so it had to be kept in repair.

      If Brownie Beaver and his friends had neglected their

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