Produced by Sigal Alon, Jacqueline Jeremy, La Monte H.P. Yarroll, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Paddy pretended to be terribly frightened. _Page 80_.] THE ADVENTURES OF Paddy BEAVER THORNTON W. BURGESS LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY BOSTON TORONTO Copyright 1917 by Thornton W. Burgess _Illustrations by Harrison Cody_ * * * * * CONTENTS CHAPTER I PADDY THE BEAVER BEGINS WORK II PADDY PLANS A POND III PADDY HAS MANY VISITORS IV SAMMY JAY SPEAKS HIS MIND V PADDY KEEPS HIS PROMISE VI FARMER BROWN'S BOY GROWS CURIOUS VII FARMER BROWN'S BOY GETS ANOTHER SURPRISE VIII PETER RABBIT GETS A DUCKING IX PADDY PLANS A HOUSE X PADDY STARTS HIS HOUSE XI PETER RABBIT AND JERRY MUSKRAT ARE PUZZLED XII JERRY MUSKRAT LEARNS SOMETHING XIII THE QUEER STOREHOUSE XIV A FOOTPRINT IN THE MUD XV SAMMY JAY MAKES PADDY A CALL XVI OLD MAN COYOTE IS VERY CRAFTY XVII OLD MAN COYOTE IS DISAPPOINTED XVIII OLD MAN COYOTE TRIES ANOTHER PLAN XIX PADDY AND SAMMY JAY BECOME FRIENDS XX SAMMY JAY OFFERS TO HELP PADDY XXI PADDY AND SAMMY JAY WORK TOGETHER XXII PADDY FINISHES HIS HARVEST * * * * * THE ADVENTURES OF PADDY THE BEAVER I PADDY THE BEAVER BEGINS WORK Work, work all the night While the stars are shining bright; Work, work all the day; I have got no time to play. This little rhyme Paddy the Beaver made up as he toiled at building the dam which was to make the pond he so much desired deep in the Green Forest. Of course it wasn't quite true, that about working all night and all day. Nobody could do that, you know, and keep it up. Everybody has to rest and sleep. Yes, and everybody has to play a little to be at their best. So it wasn't quite true that Paddy worked all day after working all night. But it was true that Paddy had no time to play. He had too much to do. He had had his playtime during the long summer, and now he had to get ready for the long cold winter. Now of all the little workers in the Green Forest, on the Green Meadows, and in the Smiling Pool, none can compare with Paddy the Beaver, not even his cousin, Jerry Muskrat. Happy Jack Squirrel and Striped Chipmunk store up food for the long cold months when rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost rule, and Jerry Muskrat builds a fine house wherein to keep warm and comfortable, but all this is as nothing to the work of Paddy the Beaver.