BEAVER AND PORCUPINE
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n that way he helped the beaver up to the top of thetree. After a while Porcupine came down and left Beaverup in the tree. Beaver wondered how he could getdown and begged Porcupine to help him. But Porcu-pine would not listen and went off to play with someother porcupines in a hole in the rocks. Finally a squirrel, who is another friend of thebeaver, came and helped him down from the tree. By and by, when Porcupine came back, he sawBeaver swimming in the lake. Beaver called to him tocome down to the lake, saying: “ Partner, let us go out to the middle of the lake. Ifyou put your head on the back of my head you willnot get wet at all.” When Porcupine had done as Beaver directed,Beaver said: “‘ Hold on tight,” and they started. The beaver would flap his tail on the water and diveway down below, then he would come to the surface,flap his tail, and go down again. He kept on doing thisuntil they came to an island in the center of the lake.Here Beaver put Porcupine ashore and went flappingaway in the same manner. ib
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