THE BIG POPLAR TREE 
U NCLE Castor was thoroughly dis¬ 
gusted. He had a right to feel that 
way, too, for he and old Chisel-tooth 
had blundered so badly that they had lost an 
entire night’s work. Beavers are seldom care¬ 
less; and it would seem that two who were so 
old that their muzzles were already growing 
white, would not blunder at all. Yet those 
two old foresters had felled a nine-inch pop¬ 
lar in such a way as to permit it to become 
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