sage of danger, but that the far less noisy rattle 
of the pit viper was filled with a deadly menace. 
O-Go, however, differed from the other 
members of the colony in one respect; he had 
no deep-seated fear of man. This was due to 
his having lived for some days at the cabin 
of Wallace, the ranger. There, he had allowed 
the young man and those of his friends who 
called there, to handle him freely. He had, fur¬ 
thermore, received a number of visits from 
Wallace since his return to the pond. 
The ranger had missed O-Go greatly, and 
had therefore sought to renew their acquaint¬ 
ance. He had several times, when nightfall 
found him in that neighborhood, waited in 
the edge of the slashing in hopes of meeting 
the little fellow. On the first three occasions, 
Wallace’s efforts were unsuccessful. This was 
because some grown beaver, catching sound or 
scent of him, had given the alarm. Thereupon, 
O-Go had dived with the rest, for he had been 
well trained to obey all such warnings. 
Wallace was unwilling to give up the idea 
of renewing his friendship with O-Go; there¬ 
fore, he came a fourth time to the slashing. 
This time he was more fortunate, for O-Go 
happened to wander very close to the point 
where he was hiding. Consequently, the little 
beaver was the first to catch the ranger’s scent, 
and some slight stirring of memory prevented 
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