Show WM THE BEAVER synopsis part wolf part dos when two months old baaree baree I 1 s his first ethne et lne with an deemy y 0 u n e ol 01 hard the antagonists are suddenly plunged into swollen creek badly nd h ik drowned baaree baree la final it flung on the bank but the inter has destroyed his sense of direction and he la lost lonely nd hungry for many days hla life Is one of tear and distress ht meets various creatures of the wild and goes through a thunderstorm lie Is learning more and more lie strips into tbt trapping grounds of pierrot and wounds baaree baree with a rifle but he es capes baaree baree recovers de covers and beirns natures secrets rapidly la determined to catch baaree baree and tame him and tries apala baaree baree li strongly drawn to the girl but still tears man i n chapter V 9 S impelled by alie wild alarm of the y willow s terrible cries the of i pierrot dashing madly toward him from the dead body of baaree baree did not stop running until it seemed u though his lungs could not draw mother breath hen he stopped he braswell out of the cannon and headed for the beaver pond exactly wherein lay baaree baree s fears it A would be difficult to say but surely A it was not because of the n willow hid chased him hard she hid hang herself upon him lie had felt a the clutch of her hands and the er of her soft hair and yet of her he J TBS not afraid if he stopped now t and then in his and looked back F it was to see if was following he would not have run biard from her alone her eves and voice and lands had something stirring in him lc nas awed with a greater yearning nd a greiter loneliness now tl at eight he dreamed troubled dreams j kg laree was glad when the dawn acenie he did not seek for food but rent down to the pond was little hope and anticipation in his man ter now he remembered that as plainly as animal davs could talk matl and his aliv mates had told they wanted nothing to do with him aad yet the fact that they were there toon away some of his loneliness it more than loneliness the wolf in him was submerged the dog was ia master and in these passing mo i when the blood of the wild wag almost dormant in him he was dei pressed by the instinctive and growing f feeling hat he was not of that wild tilt a fugitive in it menaced on all tides by strange dangers deep in the northern forests the 1 beaver does not work and play in dark less only but uses day even more than and many of beav er booths peo tle were awake when baaree baree began als conio lately to investigate the shores the pond lie did not try to hide now and af least half a dozen divers had a good look at him before e came to the point eliere the pond down to the width of alic dream almost halt a mile from the i then he wandered back A at morning he hovered about the j showing himself openly in their big mud and stick strong f ida the beavers held a council of t ar they were distinctly puzzled frere were four enemies which they aided above all others the otter ho destroyed their dams in alie win w ume and brought death to n cold and by lowering alie water 80 they could not get to their food the who peeved on them w young and old alike and the fox wolf who would he in ambush bourg in order to counie on the i ry like and his pai J ma es if baaree baree had been any one of 6 four ally beaver tooth and ills i ale would have known what to do it karee was surely not an otter and lu was a fox or a wolf or a lynx his ions were very strange to say the t half a doyen times he had alie appt to pounce on ills prey if e ad been seeking prey but at no ibe had he the desire to harm lem be that the beavers discussed e matter fully among es it 8 that and his play told their parents of their nd lore and of how baaree baree made no to harm them when he could e easily have caught them how T this may be courageous old ver tooth took it upon himself to eni the suspense or aa early ln the afternoon tant thard or fourth allne aree ali out w the daiy diy tills dam was ni two hundred feet in length but tn 0 nt did the water run aver it h allow finding its way through sluices A week or two ago t all have crossed to the appo f ue pond on this dam but el f now it the far end beav er tooth am his engineers were adding a new sec tion of dam and in order to accod their work moie easily they hai flooded fully fifty yards of the lov ground on which they were working the dam held a fascination forB aree the top of it was high and dry an there were dozens of smoothly won little hollows in which the beavers had taken their wn baths in one 0 these hollows baaree baree stretched out with his eves on the pond biot ripple stirred its velvety smoothness not a sound broke the drowsy of the afternoon the beavers might have been dead or asleep for all th stir they made and yet they knew that baaree baree was on the dam when he lay the sun fell in a warm flood and it was so comfortable that antei a time he had difficulty in keeping his eves open to watch the pond then he fell asleep just how beaver tooth sensed this fact Is a mystery five minutes later he came up quietly without a splash or a sound within fifty birds of baaree baree for a few moments he scarcely moved in the water then he swam very slowly parallel with the dam across the pond at the other bide he drew himself ashore and for another sat as motionless as a stone with bis eyes on that part of the dam where baaree baree was iving not another beaver was moving and it was very soon apparent that beaver tooth had but one object in mind getting a closer of baaree baree when he entered the water again he swam along close to the dam ten feet belond baaree baree he began to climb out he did this vv ith great slowness and caution at lat lie reached the top of the dam A few yards awny baaree baree was al most hidden in his hollow only the top of his shiny black body appearing to beaver booths scrutiny target a better look the old beaver spread bis in an instant his feet shot out from under him flat tall out belond him and rose to a sitting posture on his hind quarters his tao front held squirrel like over his breast in this pose he was fulla three feet tall ue probably weighed jorty pounds and in some ways lie resembled one of those fat tood natured silly looking dogs that go largely to stomach but his brain was working with amazing celerity suddenly he gave the hard mud of the dam a single slap with his tall and he saw beaver instantly baaree baree sat up tooth and stared beaver tooth stared for a full halt minute neither moved the thousandth part of an inch then and wagged his tall aaroe baroe stood up eliat waa enough dropping to his forefeet beaver tooth vad the flam and alun of ly to the edge nor neither over he was new ue made a haste great in very commotion in the water and great boldly back and foth under swam baaree baree when he had done tl s several tin pond to times lie cut straight up the largest of the three honses and disappeared five after beaver booths exploit word was pass the colony the among quickly ing icax he baaree baree was not a stranger he waa not a wolf fox was not a and he wai very young moreover harmless work coul 1 be resumed was no resumed there could be danger ilay such was beaver tooth s verdict shouted these facts it gome one had through a megaphone language in beaver could not have the response all at once it seemed to been quicker standing on he who was ciree dam mat the pond was of alie edge he had never seen alive with beavers before they time at one 0 o many 11 ands 01 were V eya A sy S S SZ S i out e tol sa s1 S Asma nymo S out S the alders and usa eril watched i ahls chums at t he saw th Sp forth from one t t aller housos they climbed out on lr P the smooth bat above the shore of mud babec tala 60 hard that ahls lo 10 body shook and hurried along th when he came out on the level strip of shore was there alone nib ang supper from a long freshly cut alow the other little beavers had gone into a thick clump of young al ders this time did not run he looked up from his stick baaree baree squatted himself wiggling in a most friendly and ingratiating manner for a few seconds regarded him then very coolly he resumed his aupper just as in the life ot every man there Is one big controlling influence either bior good or for bad so in the life of baaree baree the beaver pond was largely an arbiter of destine where he might have gone it he had not als covered it and what might have hap bened to him are matters of conjecture dut it held him it beann to anke the place of the old windfall and in the beavers themselves he found a companionship which made up in a ay for the loss of the protection and of kazan and gray wolf this companionship it it could be called that went just so far and no farther with each day that passed the older beavers became more accas to seeing baaree baree at the end of two weeks if baaree baree had gone away they would have missed him but not in the way that baaree baree would have missed the beavers it was a matter of good natured toleration on their pirt falth airee it was differ lie was still as would have said he still wanted moth erang he was still moved by the ish yearnings which he had not yet hid the time to outgrow and when night came to speak that yearning quite plainly he had the desire to go into the bg beaver house with and his chums and sleep during the fortnight that followed beaver tooth s exploit on the dam ba ree ate his meals a mile up the creek where there vere plenty of crawfish but the pond was home ight always found him there and a large part of his day he slept at the end of the dam or on top of it on particularly cleir nights and the beavers accepted him as a permanent guest they worked in his presence as if he did not exist he still could not induce and the beavers to join him in play and after the first week or so he gave up his efforts in fact their play puzzled him almost as much as the dam building operations of the older beavers for instance was fond of playing in the mud at the edge of the pond he was like a very small boy where his ciders flouted timbers from three inches to a foot in diameter to the big dam brought small sticks and twigs no larger around than a lead pencil to his play ground and built a make believe dam of his own would work an hour at a time on this play dam as industriously as his father and mother were working on the big dam and baaree baree would lie flat on his belly a few feet anway watching him and wondering mightily he could see some reason for nibbling at sticks he liked to sharpen bis teeth on sticks himself but it puzzled him to explain why so painstakingly stripped the bark pom p om the sticks and swallowed it another method of play still further discouraged byrees advances A distance from the spot where he had first seen there was a shelving bani that rose ten or twelve feet from the water and this bank was used by the oung beavers as a slide it was worn smooth and hard would climb up the bank at a point where it was not so steep at the top of the slide he would put his tall out hit behind him and give himself a shove shooting down the toboggan and land ing in the water a big plash splash s one afternoon when the toboggan was particularly wet and slippery from recent use baaree baree went up the beaver path to the top of the bank investigating Naw liere and began biad he found the beaver smell so strong as on the slide he began and incautiously went too far in PD hi feet shot out from under him aul ingle wild belp velp he went shooting down the can t or the second time in his ufa he found himself struggling under water and when a minute or two later he dragged himself up through the soft mud to the firmer footing of the shore he had at last a very well defined opinion of beaver play barbes stay with the beaver shows thit at bottom he Is more dog than wolf and so fitted for human companionship TO na |