Show I 7 c c Kp w V 1 I lff JL tC J ft ftC C 3 i u SAFETY S MORE fly Ily V W Burgess After all the dangers danger's oer o'er good to feel were we're sate safe once moore Paddy Paddy the Beaver Deaver Padd Paddy the Beaver Beater wasted no notime notime notime time in wondering how that hoe happened lo to be In his dam dom It was enough for him bun that there was a Il hole there Ho tie couldn't iti- iti af afford ford tord to have halo it there for tor In a little while the tho water willer would be too low in his pond He JIe was wasted led no time Neither did dud Mrs Paddy any time Both very ery care caro- carefully carefully fully looked over o the break tn in inthe Inthe the dam then swam away to got et materIals to flU fill It In But Dut with all alt their haste and andall andI all their eagerness to get Iet that hole filled In as Ba soon eoon as aa possible the they used their wits They didn't once forget that saCcI safety la Is the first law of life They didn't once forg forget t that It if they exposed themselves danger to to 0 danger while filling in In tho that hole the they might just as aa well not fill the hole at all Paddy said Raid nothing then to s Mi-s Paddy There wasn't time But Buthe ho he wondered If It she saw what ho he saw law He lie wondered If It the she Ie knew new as ho he knew how that hole hap hap- happened petted to belli be their dam It was the Work work of ot one ODO of those two two- two legged legged creatures called led men Yes Yell sir It was tsaI so BO Padd Paddy knew lenew right laway away that that hol hole had hOod boeti chopped In the da dam and he guesSed partly why that hole had been chopped In the dam Ito guessed that whoever chopped It knew that he and Mrs Paddy Y would promptly try to rep repair lr the tho damage and hoped they would show how themselves es while doing I it Perhaps It was a hunter with a terrible gun There Thoro is 18 only one ono thing thin to do said Mid Paddy to himself and that thatIs thatIs thatIs Is to keep entirely under while we work If It we wo can do that and partly flit fill that hole before dark It will be easy for tor us to fin fin- tin fin finish ish isit the work dark So Pad Paddy dy and Mrs Paddy worked hard bard and fast t t but always below water They brought some of ot tho the sticks from which they had eaten tim tho hark and worked these into the tho hole in the dam They brought SOnIC somo of ot the brushy ends from from the tho food pile and worked these theo Into the hole The They dug up masses of bud and water soaked leaves leavel from around the tho foot toot of ot the tho dam and these In In- In InAnd And hi v I were were doin doing it never neler once did di thEy show themselves above the sur- sur surface sur surface face Of OC course It was easier for Cor them to keep but of sight fight be- be because be because cause they could work under the thoIce Ice but right around the tho In the tho data dam the leo ico had bad boon boen chopped away The Tho man who had cut tha that hole holo hole In the dam had hadI h hoped that or dr Sirs Mrs Pad Pad-ly pad would put uta a 0 head up above th the n Ln CC AI n aILS cuy flue waIting walling with a terrible gun guti You see sec ho was wasi what Is called a poacher He lie was tas one of ot those men who do not obe obey laws unless they Are arc obliged to lo He lie thought ho he might bl b be i able to get set one ct cf those beavers without being caught and this was I s s the way he lie had gone gOllo about It It Ha Ito had been ery very patient For Fora a long time ho he had not known whether or not padO Paddy and Mrs frs Paddy had discovered the break In the dam dOom Not once had the they themselves But there came caine It II time when wIlen lie he noticed that the tho water was not hot lowing flowing through that break bruk In tho the dam as os last fast as It asIt bad had Ito He kept sharp harp hariL watch on n i I 4 V I p Hr H U a It I Is ls leer said lie Joe talking rif to 10 I Hint hat I cannot annot get t one of tho those beaters en by Ihen then and antI sa saw mw that water w flow Clow less and less treel freely lIe He knew then that that hole was wal being filled d front below It was wag being filled under and there wasn't a 3 athing thinS thing he ho could do about it Of OC course ho could tear teal it open again but that would do no good 1001 It If those beavers were not to lo show themselves Ho lie looked rather foolish It Is I clear said he talking to himself that I cannot get one cot of those thosa Beavers by shooting Ill I'll try cutting that dam open again and ano setting a trap In the break In that way I ought to be able ablo to get one So the hunter gave up and oft off and that night Paddy and Irs Paddy filled In the break Un- Un UntIl un Ull until til 11 there wasn't even a tiny leak there They were safe safo once and they were very Ory very ery tired Copyright 1927 1921 by T W Bur Bur gus gess The rhe next story A Lost Trap |