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Identifier: houseinwaterbook00robe (find matches)
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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be rolled easily down-hill that cannot bedragged along an uneven side-hill; so, at last, ithad become necessary to extend the canal parallelwith the bottom of the slope. Working in this di-rection, every foot of new ditch brought a lot ofnew supplies within reach. The extremity of the canal was dug on a slant,for greater ease in removing the material. Herethe two beavers toiled side by side, working inde-pendently. With their teeth they cut the tough sodas cleanly as a diggers spade could do it. Withtheir fore paws they scraped up the soil — whichwas soft and easily worked — into sticky lumps,which they could hug under their chins and carryup the slope to be dumped upon the grass at theside. Every minute one or the other would stop,lift his brown head over the edge, peer about, andsniff, and listen, then fall to work again furiously,as if the whole future and fortune of the pond werehanging upon his toil. After a half-hours labourthe canal was lengthened very perceptibly — fully
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Hn tbe mnfcer^water TimorIfc 43 six or eight inches — and as if by common consentthe two brown excavators stopped to refresh them-selves by nibbling at some succulent roots. Whilethey were thus occupied, and apparently absorbed,from somewhere up the slope among the birch-treescame the faint sound of a snapping twig. In halfa second the beavers had vanished noiselessly underwater, down the canal, leaving but a swirl of muddyfoam to mark their going.

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