And that queer white cur with the brown ear seems to be leaping and barking in ineffectual remonstrance with the wheel; perhaps he is jealous because his playfellow in the beaver bonnet is so rapt in its movement.
Dorothea did at last appear on this quaint background, walking up the short aisle in her white beaver bonnet and gray cloak—the same she had worn in the Vatican.
Dagley himself made a figure in the landscape, carrying a pitchfork and wearing his milking-hat—a very old beaver flattened in front.
They were just in time to see another figure standing against a pedestal near the reclining marble: a breathing blooming girl, whose form, not shamed by the Ariadne, was clad in Quakerish gray drapery; her long cloak, fastened at the neck, was thrown backward from her arms, and one beautiful ungloved hand pillowed her cheek, pushing somewhat backward the white beaver bonnet which made a sort of halo to her face around the simply braided dark-brown hair.
And as soon as he had finished his breakfast Brownie Beaver hastened to the tailor-shop of Mr.
Frog that asked the question; and he asked it of Brownie Beaver, who was at work on top of his house.
XVII BROWNIE ESCAPES When the tree crashed down upon Brownie Beaver and held him fast, it was some time before he came to his senses.
XVI LOOKING PLEASANT After Jasper Jay left Brownie Beaver, on that day when Jasper told Brownie that the photographer had made a flashlight picture of him, Brownie could hardly wait for it to grow dark.
XV JASPER JAY'S STORY After the blinding flash of light and the queer click had sent Brownie Beaver hurrying home from his partly gnawed tree, he stayed in his house for a long time before he ventured out again.
Everybody in the village where Brownie Beaver lived was very much upset.
XIII A LUCKY FIND Brownie Beaver almost wished he hadn't spent so much time waiting for Grandaddy to tell him to tie down his house so it wouldn't be carried away by the big wind on the following day.
XII GRANDADDY BEAVER THINKS It was on a Friday that Brownie Beaver first heard the cyclone was coming.
" Tired Tim asked Brownie Beaver one day.
X A HOLIDAY There was great rejoicing in the little village in the pond when Brownie Beaver returned with the good news that there would be no more hunting and fishing.
When Uncle Jerry Chuck appeared, Brownie Beaver said he was glad to see him and that Uncle Jerry was looking very well.
CROW IS UPSET Brownie Beaver couldn't help feeling that Mr.
Crow flew back to Pleasant Valley to gather news for him, Brownie Beaver carefully counted each day that passed.
VI A HAPPY THOUGHT Brownie Beaver liked to know what was going on in the world.
V BROWNIE SAVES THE DAM Brownie Beaver was always glad that he had taken Grandaddy's advice about the freshet.
For some time it did not in the least disturb Brownie Beaver and his neighbors—that is to say, all but one of them.
