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Show Inn; NEW DAM. '. Burgess, to ask n his task. the Beaver. In't keep away Paddy and -Men. ;. It was the ever had to see beginning Just Mrs. Padd) aork le, for you know la more anxious I'erhapa you ;e him iddy dragged all could find, and ftllng Brook with r up. They cut thce there and ime way From piled mud and sticks At first aughing Brook j r But presently ugh sticks it be-Ittle be-Ittle and trickle Itlle pool formed n to run around Mrs. Beaver built 3er and further, fork! Anvthlng em to drag they &n the new dam. grew. At first It l as the water y kept building fry night 'and -ill ind often in the hey were in a D completed, he water would and at once one I to plug up that 4. The mud and B the upper side i first had been a ig poo!. Then it - Still tho.- two 'nger nnd higher As the water id cut the bushes Hong the edge of a to be used in n't been going on ps of it had gone en Forest, and A came over to WS jr - - ' rljL 2" w Padd and Mrs Padd) dragged all the 1 c sticks the) could find. look on Some came Just out of curiosity, curi-osity, but more than curiosity brought others there. Old Man Coyote wis one of these. Yowler the Hob Cat was another. Both of them hoped for a Beaver dinner. They hoped that Paddy and Mrs. Reaver would be so interested In their work that they would forget to watch out. But they never did forget. No, sir. they never did forget. There never was an Instant that their ears and i noses were not on guard. And bc-Icause bc-Icause they took only tho sticks and bushes and young trees from the very 'edge of the water Old Man Coyoto and Yowler had no chance to surprise them. Night after night those two I enemies prowled around that growing I pond and night after night Paddy and Mrs. Paddy went on with their work I Sometimes Paddy would b- working Ion one side of that new pond and Mrs Paddy would be on the other side. 'There would crime a rharp report, the jreport of a big. flat tall striking the jwuter. Then 1,'addy would know that Mrs. Beaver had discovered an enem) Sometimes it would be the other way around he being the one to give the signal. But never did they let the prcs-I- nee ui r,n r ni'iny stop the work. When it wasn't safe to go ashore they dug up mud from the bottom nnd plastered plas-tered the fare of the dam with It And so tho new dam grew, and the new pond grew, and Peter Babbit, uatchlnfr. wondered when the work would end. (Copyright, 192 2. by T W. Buigss) The next storj "How the New Pond Was Used." oo |