Part 7 (1/1)

And indeed it was a very fine canal, straight, wide, and deep enough for Paddy to swis out to the pond Yes, indeed, it was a very fine canal

XXII

PADDY FINISHES HIS HARVEST

”Sharp his tongue and sharp his eyes-- Saainst surprise

If 'twere not for Sammy Jay I could do no work to-day”

When Sammy overheard Paddy the Beaver say that to Jerry Muskrat, it made him swell up all over with pure pride You see, Sas about hi nice like that pleased his he had said to Paddy when he first saw him--how he had called him a thief because he had cut the aspen-trees he needed He forgot all this He forgot how Paddy had -stock of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows by cutting down the very tree in which he had been sitting He forgot everything but that Paddy had trusted his about him He s that Paddy could say, and he thought that Paddy was the finest fellow in the world

Jerry Muskrat looked doubtful He didn't trust Sao far fro around But Paddy worked away just as if he hadn't a fear in the world

”The way to make people want to be trusted is to trust them,” said he to himself ”If I show Sammy Jay that I don't really trust hiive it up But if I do trust him, and he knows that I do, he'll be the best watchman in the Green Forest”

And this shows that Paddy the Beaver has a great deal of wisdoht and early everyHe made sure that Old Man Coyote was nowhere in the Green Forest, and then he settled himself comfortably in the top of a tall pine-tree where he could see all that was going on while Paddy the Beaver worked

Paddy had finished his canal, and a beautiful canal it was, leading straight from his pond up to the aspen-trees As soon as he had finished it, he began to cut the trees As soon as one was down he would cut it into short lengths and roll them into the canal Then he would float theer branches, on which there eet, tender bark, in the same way, for Paddy is never wasteful

After a while he went over to his storehouse, which, you knoas nothing but a great pile of aspen-logs and branches in his pond close by his house He studied it very carefully Then he swam back and climbed up on the bank of his canal

”Mr Jay,” said he, ”I think our work is about finished”

”What!” cried Sa to cut the rest of those aspen-trees?”

”No,” replied Paddy ”Enough is always enough, and I've got enough to last me all winter I want those trees for next year Now I am fixed for the winter I think I'll take it easy for a while”

Saun to learn that the greatest pleasure in the world cos for other people

For the first tiave hi down deep inside!

THE END