A NEW LODGE 
T HE TWO newcomers who had joined 
the colony on Patou Pond, had thus 
far been without any permanent home, 
and had used the dugout on the old canal as 
a temporary dwelling place. If there had not 
been this spare lodge for them, they would 
have been received into one of the lodges, for 
beavers good-naturedly share their quarters 
during an emergency. When the emergency is 
over, each beaver family seeks, as a rule, to 
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