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Speaker 1: slash support. Thank you. This story is part two of

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Speaker 1: our story about Toto the Beaver. Last time, Toto had

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Speaker 1: she had lost one of her skates. In this part

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Speaker 1: home safely. Toto's family is talking about gnawing trees and

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Speaker 1: Toto learns to naw. Toto, the little beaver boy was

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Speaker 1: Maybe that shiny thing is a trap. Toto knew what

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Speaker 1: that caught beavers and muskrats. Millie came closer and closer.

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Speaker 1: With bright, eager eyes, almost as bright and eager as

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Speaker 1: didn't mean to stay away so long, mother, answered Toto

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Speaker 1: What's an adventure, asked Sniffy, who was not quite so

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Speaker 1: to you, Toto answered, And what happened to you, asked

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Speaker 1: is otherwise too shallow, answered mister Beaver. By putting a

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Speaker 1: But land animals cannot get into our houses as long

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Speaker 1: asked Missus Beaver. No I didn't, Toto answered. Did some

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Speaker 1: But he said he'd send you home if he met you,

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Speaker 1: replied Missus Beaver. Of course he didn't meet you. I'll

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Speaker 1: I'm hungry too, said Toto. The bark on the bush

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Speaker 1: Let me see your teeth, Toto. What for? The little

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Speaker 1: beaver boy wanted to know, to see if they are

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Speaker 1: His teeth were strong and white, that is all, except

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Speaker 1: a sort of red or orange color. All beavers have

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Speaker 1: orange colored gnawing teeth, and the rest are white like yours. Hum, yes,

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Speaker 1: down trees this summer, said Daddy Beaver as he looked

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Speaker 1: strong as the chisels the carpenter uses to smooth wood,

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Speaker 1: be easy, said Sniffy, who was eating some appp and

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Speaker 1: hard tree, said mister beaver. You boys will learn that

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Speaker 1: soon enough. But here, Toto try some of this bark.

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Speaker 1: Soon Toto and Sniffy gnawed the bark, and Toto told

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Speaker 1: So the beavers are around here, are they asked Milly's father.

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Speaker 1: I wondered what made a part of Winding River flow

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Speaker 1: so slowly this fall. The beavers must have dammed it up. Well,

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Speaker 1: We won't disturb them. The rest of that winter, Toto

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Speaker 1: Toto went out on the frozen river a few times, however,

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Speaker 1: Toto and Sniffy. You are going to learn how to

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Speaker 1: damn bigger, asked Toto, Yes, that's what you are going

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Speaker 1: to do, his father said. He dove down in the

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Speaker 1: two Beaver boys followed him. Their noses closed and they

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