“But I thought you were going to finish, Dad,” said Sniffy.
“He will, Sniffy, if he said so. But he’s letting us help a little more first so we can learn faster!”
[Crash! Bang! went the big tree.]
So the beaver boys sat up on their tails again, and gnawed at the big tree—the largest one they had ever helped to cut down. They gnawed and gnawed and gnawed with their orange-colored front teeth, and then Mr. Beaver said:
“That’s enough, boys. I’ll do the rest. But you may whack on the ground with your tails to warn the others out of the way.”
So Toto and Sniffy, much delighted to do this, found a smooth place near a big rock, and then they went:
“Whack! Whack! Whack!”