water. Such conduct would not have been so 
surprising in Ilg as it was in O-Go, for Ilg 
always ate too much. But O-Go had never 
failed to obey every signal and Mother Beaver 
was therefore greatly surprised, when on reach¬ 
ing the lodge she found him missing. She 
started immediately to hunt for him, leaving 
Ilg and Ela in the care of Father Beaver. 
In far less time than it had taken her to get 
home, Mother Beaver was back at the lily cove. 
There she hunted high and low for the little 
fellow, finding easily enough the place where he 
had eaten, the place where he had lain down to 
sleep and the point at which he had entered the 
water. But O-Go himself she could not find. 
However, there was no scent of any enemy 
about the place, and, taking what comfort she 
could from that fact, Mother Beaver returned 
home again. Perhaps O-Go would be there 
before her. 
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