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Speaker 1: In this story, Toto and Don talk about food and

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Speaker 1: men that are camping in the woods. Toto helps Don

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Speaker 1: to find cover when they hear the thumping sound of

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Speaker 1: the beaver's tale, and Toto explains why beavers make this sound.

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Speaker 1: Don is very happy. He listened to Toto and hid.

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Speaker 1: When a tree comes crashing down next to them, Toto

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Speaker 1: and the men, Toto, the bustling beaver, ran as fast

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Speaker 1: as he could and took shelter under a big rock

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Speaker 1: that made a place like a little cave on the

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Speaker 1: side of the hill. What's the matter, asked Don the dog.

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Speaker 1: Are you afraid because I told you about the men? Oh? No,

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Speaker 1: answered Toto. But didn't you hear that thumping sound just now? Yes,

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Speaker 1: I heard it, answered Don. What was it? Somebody beating

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Speaker 1: a carpet. I don't know what a carpet is, replied Toto.

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Speaker 1: We don't have any our house. But whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't that. The noise you heard was one of

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Speaker 1: my beaver friends thumping his tail on the ground. Oh

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Speaker 1: you mean wagging his tail, barked down. Well, I do

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Speaker 1: that myself when I feel glad. I guess one of

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Speaker 1: your beaver friends must be glad. No, it isn't that,

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Speaker 1: went Toto. Whenever any one of the beavers thumps his

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Speaker 1: tail on the ground, it means there's danger around, and

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Speaker 1: all of us who hear it run and hide. You

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Speaker 1: better come under this rock with me. Then you'll be

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Speaker 1: out of danger once more. The thumping sound echoed through

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Speaker 1: I guess I will, barked Don. No. Sooner was he

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Speaker 1: under the big rock with Toto, than all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden there was a loud crash and a great tree

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Speaker 1: fell almost on the place in the woods where Toto

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Speaker 1: and Don had been standing talking. My goodness, barked Dawn,

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Speaker 1: fallen on us. Did you know it was going to fall? Well, no,

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Speaker 1: not exactly. My brother and I have been practicing gnawing

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Speaker 1: a tree this morning, but ours isn't cut down yet.

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Speaker 1: My father is going to finish cutting it and show

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Speaker 1: Sniffy in me how it is done. But he promised

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Speaker 1: not to cut it all the way through until I

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Speaker 1: out now, asked Don. Though he was older than the

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Speaker 1: beaver boy, he felt that perhaps Toto knew more about

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Speaker 1: the woods, especially when tree cutting was going on. Toto

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Speaker 1: listened with his little ears. He heard the beavers, which

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Speaker 1: heard some of them say, it's all right now. Guppy

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Speaker 1: and Slump have cut down the big tree for the dam.

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Speaker 1: It has fallen, and now it is safe for us

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Speaker 1: pieces of bark Toto had stripped off. What are you

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Speaker 1: going to do with them? Asked Don? Make a basket?

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Speaker 1: A basket, I should say, not, exclaimed Toto. I'm going

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Speaker 1: say not, laughed Don, in a barking manner. I like

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Speaker 1: bones to gnaw, but not bark, though I bark with

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Speaker 1: But tell me, do you always hear a thumping sound

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Speaker 1: of the ways we beavers have of talking. To one another,

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Speaker 1: answered Toto, whenever one of us is cutting a tree

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Speaker 1: glad to know this, said Don. When I'm in the

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Speaker 1: went on. I must get going. I want to see

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Speaker 1: if I can find the camp where those men live.

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Speaker 1: These men are no good. They keep coming around the

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Speaker 1: and try to drive them away. Then he trotted on

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Speaker 1: gathered some up in his paws and, walking on his

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Speaker 1: were waiting for him. Here's Toto, said Sniffy. Where have

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Speaker 1: you been, asked mister Beaver. Oh, getting some sweet bark,

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Speaker 1: answered Toto, and he laid down on some clean moss

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Speaker 1: the strips he had pulled off. I met a dog too,

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Speaker 1: A dog, cried mister Beaver. My goodness, I hope he

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Speaker 1: isn't chasing after you, and he looked through the trees

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Speaker 1: as if afraid. Oh this was Don, a good dog,

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Speaker 1: explained Toto. He's only looking for some men. He won't

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Speaker 1: hurt any beavers. Well, if he's a good dog, all right,

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Speaker 1: said the beaver. Daddy. Where were you when Cuppy whacked

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Speaker 1: his brother had brought. Oh, Don and I hid under

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Speaker 1: a big rock, answered Toto. I told him the whacking

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Speaker 1: sound meant danger. He didn't know it, and it's a

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Speaker 1: good thing we hid when we did, for the tree

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Speaker 1: would have crushed us if we hadn't been under the rock.

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Speaker 1: Is our tree ready to finish gnawing down Daddy? Yes,

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Speaker 1: answered mister Beaver. You and Sniffy may start now and

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Speaker 1: cut a little more. I'll tell you when to stop.

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Speaker 1: But I thought you were going to finish, Dad, said Sniffy.

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Speaker 1: He will, Sniffy if he said so. But he's letting

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Speaker 1: us help a little bit more so we can learn faster.

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Speaker 1: So the beaver boys sat up on their tails again

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Speaker 1: and nod at the big tree, the largest one they

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Speaker 1: had ever helped to cut down. They nod and nod

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Speaker 1: and nod with their orange colored front teeth, and then

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Speaker 1: mister Beaver said, that's enough boys. I'll do the rest,

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Speaker 1: but you may whack on the ground with your tails

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Speaker 1: and Sniffy, much delighted to do this, found a smooth

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Speaker 1: whack whack. Danger, Danger, cried a lot of the other

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Speaker 1: beavers who were working nearby. A tree is going to fall.

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Speaker 1: Run everybody, danger, see, exclaimed Toto to his brother. We

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Speaker 1: just as Couppy made Dawn and me run. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: beaver boys are growing up, said mister Beaver, who had

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Speaker 1: waited to see that his two sons gave the danger

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Speaker 1: the tree. He gave a few more bites or gnaws

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Speaker 1: and then mister Beaver himself ran out of the way. Crash, bang,

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Speaker 1: down several other smaller trees, and finally was stretched out

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Speaker 1: on the ground near the waters of Winding River. We

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Speaker 1: helped do that, said Toto to Sniffy, when the woods

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Speaker 1: down big trees, said their father. You are no longer

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Speaker 1: playing beavers, You are working beavers. Now we must dig

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Speaker 1: the canal to float the tree nearer the dam, as

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Speaker 1: it is too heavy for us to roll or pull along,

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Speaker 1: and we do not want to cut it. I will

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Speaker 1: tell you a little farther on how the beavers cut

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Speaker 1: canals to float logs to the places where they want

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Speaker 1: to use them. Just now, all I'll say about them

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Speaker 1: is that it took some time to get the tree.

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Speaker 1: Toto and Sniffy had helped cut to the place where

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Speaker 1: it was needed for the dam. The two beaver boys

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Speaker 1: a week or more. Then one day, when the tree

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Speaker 1: stickhouse had been eaten. Yes, you may go, said missus Beaver,

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Speaker 1: I won't, promised Toto. Then he waddled off through the

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Speaker 1: thought Toto, or that little girl who scared me so

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Speaker 1: that day on the ice. Toto looked off through the trees,

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Speaker 1: but he saw neither down nor the girl. Toto found

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Speaker 1: a place where some aspen bark grew on trees, and

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Speaker 1: he gnawed off and ate as much as he wanted.

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Speaker 1: Then he walked on a little farther, and pretty soon

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Speaker 1: he saw something in the woods that looked like a

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Speaker 1: big beaver house. It was a heap of branches and

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Speaker 1: beaver house, thought Toto. It isn't near water, and no

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Speaker 1: beavers would build a house unless it had water near it.

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Speaker 1: I wonder what it is. Toto sat up on his

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Speaker 1: once he heard rough voices speaking, and he saw some

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Speaker 1: ragged men come out of the pile of bark. One

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Speaker 1: and another was holding a pan over a fire that

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Speaker 1: blazed on a flat rock. Oh, I know who they are,

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Speaker 1: said Toto to himself. These must be the men Don

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Speaker 1: was looking for. This is their camp. I found those

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Speaker 1: bad men. I wish I could find Don to tell him.

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