Show h ho o I j jI jI I I e I I. I I MARY Jv GAI GRAHAM BONNER BONNER- I Il 11 1 LIN Uti lit U THE NEW NEVI HOME HOl Bobby Beaver and Mrs Beaver Leaver had hada a nice meal of wood food-wood before they set to work on the thet t home they were planning to have hae for themselves Bobby Dobby y Beaver e a e r was a hard workIng workIng work- work Ing lag animal and he got right at his job without any fuss at all First he made use of some nice country lan land and anda a n brook brook- lie Tic use used t the sticks which r were left after they thc had hind eaten the I art bark burl of the woo wood and he began tomake to tomake make mole a dam y You u know the It Was Perfectly beavers heavers are famous Beautiful for building dams canals and all things s built with water water water wa wa- ter land and sticks Bobby made the dam out of some good mud and he carried It himself to the spot where he was building carr carrying It always between his paws an and holding It close to him so as not notto notto notto to lose It ns as he swam along Then he worked over the mud making makIng making mak mak- ing It just the height and width he lie wanted and using the sticks too And then he lie made a n fine deep brooklet brook brook- let which he used as a private drIveway driveway driveway drive drIve- way to his new home Tie fIe made a most handsome home and Mrs Beaver thought It was perfectly perfectly perfectly per per- beautiful lie swam around using his tall tail to help heJI him go an and asking Mrs Beaver if she liked it She had to say say over and over again of course that she thought ht It was a beautiful home nn and Indeed she shedid shedid shedid did think thin so But Bobby Lobby liked to hear bear her sa say so many times and then finally she f felt lt quite sure that she liked like ItI itI itI it I always build the entrance to any home I 1 make said Bobby under the water It seems so stupid to enter ones one's home on dry land Jand That is the w way ay it has always seemed to me said Mrs Irs Beaver I dont don't believe I could enter my home In any other manner I heard such a strange thing the theother theother theother other day said Bobb Bobby Do tell me what you heard said Mrs Beaver as ns she took a bit of food- food woodI wood I 1 heard of a beaver benver said Bobby who lived In the zoo an and who wouldn't work when he be was being watched And they tell me Inc that all our cousins who live lie in the zoo are the same way They simply will not work when they are being watched They dont don't like llIe It It quite annoys them and so they do nothing at all when visitors are around Do liDo they have many visitors 2 1 asked Mrs Beaver Yes sai said Bobby they ha have ve guests all the time who come to call callon callon callon on them diem T liT h e visitors know the beavers are hard Itar workers and the they stand around and wait walt waitto to see the tIte beavers r work But the beavers will not work while people do nothing but hut s stand tan d an and watch them r 1 They do not s r think that is right at all Yell Well 1 ell that is a n. tt n good g joke said Mrs Beaver So B that Is the way our cousins in the zoo A Bit Bt I o 0 of f F Food Food- behave 2 Wood Yes said Bobby Bob- Bob by and the they do all nIl their work at nt ni night ht when is no one watching Dear me dear me said Mrs Beaver And Anti I heard too of one who had pulled down clown a big tree in the zoo just by working at nt night said Bobby I Well IVell now nosy that Is most Interesting news said Mrs Beaver Beater And then the they went into their home and admired it all over oer again |