The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories

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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts. The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories

The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. The Sound in the Night

CHAPTER II. The Battle in the Pond

CHAPTER III. In the Under-water World

CHAPTER IV. Night Watchers

CHAPTER V. Dam Repairing and Dam Building

CHAPTER VI. The Peril of the Traps

CHAPTER VII. Winter Under Water

CHAPTER VIII. The Saving of Boy’s Pond

The White-slashed Bull

When the Blueberries Are Ripe

The Glutton of the Great Snow

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II

III

When the Truce of the Wild is Done

The Window in the Shack

The Return of the Moose

From the Teeth of the Tide

The Fight at the Wallow

I

II

Sonny and the Kid

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Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The Boy grinned appreciation of the notable honour done him in the naming of the pond, and a little flush of pleasure deepened the red of his cheeks. He knew that the name would stick, and eventually go upon the maps, the lumbermen being a people tenacious of tradition and not to be swerved from their own way.

“Thank you, Jabe!” he said simply. “But how do you know there are sixteen or twenty beaver in my pond?”

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