He at once recognized the beaver and shouted:
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Oh, Uncle Beaver, can’t you do something for me?That rascally cousin of mine has got me into a sorryscrape; and you see my tail is frozen fast in the icehere. Can’t you do something to help me out? ” The old beaver kept on looking at the fox as if hewere about to laugh. Finally he said: “*T will see what I can do.” He dived down under the ice to the very place wherethe fox was sitting and, by working hard, soon man-aged to loosen the fox’s tail from the frozen air hole. Then he stuck his head out and urged the fox topull up his fishing line. He also warned him neveragain to be in such a hurry to try his cousin’s schemesfor fishing.
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