The Kemper herald., 1908-06-18
! The eBeaTFamilu'
] at Home.
! The Story Of the Coming Of a Very
! Hard Working Animal.

Inc next morning UHe llttle Sup
bear wakened very early and as soon
as he had rubbed his eyes, he won
dered if any of the animals would
come that day. He listened, and he
listened. and he listened.
Pretty soon he heard something
coming up the path, and little cub
| bear rushed to the mouth of the den
to see what it was, and he said, Il
| see a very strange animal coming up
| the path. 1t has the most beautiful
fur / ever saw in my whole life,
ever so much finer than bears fur,
| and the animal looks something like
Mr.. Badger, only it's fur Is all one
color, and it has the funniest tail,
almost as big as shovel, fiat and
broad" just then the owl saw the
animal and said, "Who-o? who-o-o?.,
But the animal didn't answer at all,
except that he gave two slaps with
his broad fiat tail on the ground
slap, slap and the circus bear said,
Il know who that is. That is Mr..
Beaver. Ask him to come in
Mr.. Beaver came to the door, and
the little cub bear said very politely,
Come in, Mr.. Beaver" The beaver
came in and the little cub bear said,
1--WE are going to try and build
house big enough for all the animals,
so if they come to see us, we Will
have a place for them to stay. Can
you help u.s." And the beaver said,
81 will be very glad to, because your
brother was very good to me when
we were in the circus"
The little cub bear said, What
can you do?" And the beaver said,
Il can build dams across streams
SO as to make beautiful lakes, such
as they have in parks, and can
build a nice, round house in the lake
to live in and large enough for a
little bear to live in, if he can only
get inside without getting wet" And
the cub bear said, That would be
fine, because we could have park
for the animals to play in, and some
of the animals would rather live in
the water anyway, than live in the
cave" So the beaver said, "All right
l will make you a dam and beauti-
full lake" So they all went down
to the stream and the beaver went up
to a tree, and he commenced to bite
it. He bit and he bit and he bit,
and the chips just flew, and the first
thing they knew the tree fell over
Then he went to another tree, not
very large tree, only about so thick
(three inches) Then he went TO an
other trse, and he bit and he bit and
he bit, and the first thing they knew
that tree fell over. So he kept on
and on until he had cut down great
many trees, so that they fell into
the water or across the stream, and
he put in leaves and the water COM
menced to rise higher and higher,
and the beaver kept piling in the big
logs, and soon he had high dam
clear across the stream. The next
morning when they looked, the wat
er had filled up above the dam and
made a beautiful lake. Soon the
beaver went to work and made
house out of mud. He used his fore
feet as if they were hands, walking
on his hind feet, and he used his fiat
tail to make beautiful mud house,
big enough to live in himself, and
big enough for little cub bear to
get in, if he could only get in with
out getting wet. And the little cub
bear said, Thank you,' very polite
ly. And then he said, Il am very
glad my brother was good to Mr..
Beaver in the circus"
AS soon as they had seen the dam
built by the beaver, all the animals
began to work again as hard as they
could work to make the cave larger,
because it was too small for the ami
mails that were already there, and the
elephant could not get in at all.
The next morning the beaver and
the owl and the monkey were talk
ing together, and the beaver said,
Il am going down to live in that
beautiful mud house that l made yes
terday in the lake. The house has
several rooms inside, and the door
unuel Tic WdtSi. tdu oWiih Ous
there, and then dive under the water
and come up inside the house. No
one could find me in there. When
/ am swimming around in the lake
or working on the dam, if ! see any
one coming l will jump into the
water and hit the water two great
slaps with my tail" And the mon.
key said, "Yes, 1 know how that
sounds. That sounds just like a gum"
The owl said as soon as he saw any
one coming he would say, "Who-o-o?
Who-o-o-oo?" So the beaver went
down to the dam to work, and the
monkey went out to see If he could
find any of the animals, and the old
owl flew up into the tree and sat
out on the end of dead limb and
waited