And when they reached the school, which was in an old boat that floated around the pond, there was a sign on the door reading:
"No School Today. Come Tomorrow."
"Oh, joy!" cried Toodle.
"Oh, happiness!" said Noodle.
"Now we can have some fun," spoke Bully the frog. "Come on, boys, what shall we do?"
"Come over by our beaver pond and maybe we can have some fun there," suggested Toodle.
"Yes, you can coast down our mud slide into the water," added Noodle.
"Oh, I couldn't do that—rabbits are not supposed to do that," said Sammie Littletail.
"Well, come on, anyhow," urged Noodle. "We'll find some way to have fun."
So many of the animal boys went with Toodle and Noodle over to the beaver pond, where there was a dam, or a long, low wall of mud, stones, sticks and grass to keep the water from running away. It was just such a dam as you children build in the gutter on a rainy day, only the beaver dam was larger.