
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 w...
Paperback: 38 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 18, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1499594003
ISBN-13: 978-1499594003
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When I was 6 and 7, and maybe a bit older, too, I read Burgess's entire Mother Nature series. My grandmother gave me all the books - she knew I loved being outdoors and was curious about the lives of wild animals. From the first, I was completely ent...
ay 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.