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Title: The house in the water: a book of animal stories
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir, 1860-1943
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ight, however, there came to the pond anenemy of whose powers they had never had expe-rience. Wandering down from northwestward,under the impulse of one of those migratory whimswhich sometimes give the lie to statistics and tradi-tion, came a sinister, dark, slow-moving beastwhose savage and crafty eyes took on a suddenflame when they detected the white mound whichhid the shore beaver-house. The wolverene didnot need that faint, almost invisible wisp of vapourfrom the air-holes to tell him there were beaversbelow. He knew something about beavers. Hispowerful forearms and mighty claws got him: tothe bottom of the snow in a few seconds. Otherhungry marauders had done the same thing before,to find themselves as far off as ever from their aim.But the wolverene was not to be balked so easily.His cunning nose found the minute openings of theair-holes; and by digging his claws into these littleapertures he was able to put forth his great strengthand tear up some tiny fragments of frozen mud.
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A SINISTER, DARK, SLOW-MOVING BEAST. Mintet *Gln&er Mater 107 If he had had the patience to keep on at his stren-uous task unremittingly for, perhaps, twenty-fourhours or more, it is conceivable that this fierce dig-ger might have succeeded in making his way intothe chamber. There was no such implacable pur-pose, however, in his attack. In a very little whilehe would have desisted from what he knew to bea vain undertaking. Even had he succeeded, thebeavers would have fled before he could reach them,and taken refuge in their burrows under the bank.But while he was still engrossed, perhaps onlyamusing himself with the thought of giving thedwellers in the house a bad quarter of an hour, itchanced that a huge lynx came stealing alongthrough the shadows of the trees, which lay blueand spectral in the white moonlight. He saw thehind quarters of some unknown animal which wasbusy working out a problem which he himself hadstriven in vain to solve. The strange animal wasplainly smaller than

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