Chip, the Dam Builder

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Jim Kjelgaard. Chip, the Dam Builder

Chip, the Dam Builder

Table of Contents

Chapter I

DISASTER STRIKES

Chapter II

DANGEROUS JOURNEY

Chapter III

GLARE, THE LYNX

Chapter IV

A NEW HOME

Chapter V

KING, THE TROUT

Chapter VI

THE NEW COLONY

Chapter VII

TRIM, THE DOE

Chapter VIII

WINTER HARVEST

Chapter IX

DOWN IN THE VALLEY

Chapter X

UNDER THE ICE

Chapter XI

RIPPLE, THE OTTER

Chapter XII

JED HALE'S PROBLEM

Chapter XIII

END OF A KILLER

Chapter XIV

THE HUMANS COME

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Jim Kjelgaard

Published by Good Press, 2021

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These four veterans watched the enraged lynx come down to the edge of the pond and rear with his front paws on a mossy log. He blinked his big eyes at the swimming beaver. They did not flinch. Unless it were desperately hungry, on the point of near-starvation, a lynx would not enter the water, and the beaver knew it.

After five minutes, waving defiance with his stub tail, the lynx walked back into the aspen forest. Chip swam cautiously toward the bank, then backed out into the water again. The lynx was gone and nothing else was in sight, but the old beaver remained uneasy. In his age and wisdom he had learned to piece together all the signs, all the things that might pass unnoticed by a beaver with less experience. He knew that something more than the lynx still threatened, and was all the more worried because he could not identify it. All he could do was to remain constantly watchful.

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