Chapter XV 
THE BEAVER: Chief Gnawer 
One morning, in the same forest where the Blairs 
had seen the eagle, Buck and Ginger hiked half a 
mile from their camp to an icy stream. But when 
they came to a small pond with some very strange 
thin gs in it, the children hastened back to camp. 
“Uncle Ely, we found some Eskimo houses in 
water!” Ginger exclaimed. 
“Anyhow they looked like Eskimo houses,” Buck 
added. “They were made of mud and sticks, and 
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