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2 The House In the Water

Bt Charles G. D. Robberts, author of "The Haunters of the Silences" "Red Fox," "The Heart of the Ancient Wood," etc. With cover design, sixteen full-page drawings, and many minor decorations by Charles Livingston Bull, doth decorative, with decorated wrapper $1.50

Professor Roberts's new book of nature and animal life is one long story in which he tells of the life of that wonderfully acute and tireless little worker, the beaver. "The Boy" and Jabe the Woodsman again appear, figuring in the story even more than they did in "Bed Fox;" and the adventures of the boy and the beaver make most absorbing reading for young and old.

The following chapter headings for "The House in the Water "will give an idea of the fascinating reading to come:

The Sound in the Night (Beavers at Work).

The Battle in the Pond (Otter and Beaver).

In the Under-water World (Home life of the Beaver).

Night Watchers ("The Boy" and Jabe and a Lynx See the Beavers at Work).

Dam Repairing and Dam Building (A "House-rising" Bee). The Peril of the Traps (Jabe Shows "The Boy").

Winter under Water (Safe from All but Man).

The Saving of Boy's Pond ("The Boy" Captures Two Outlaws).

"As a writer about animals, Mr. Roberts occupies an enviable place. He is the most literary, as well as the most imaginative and vivid of all the nature writers."—Brooklyn Eagle.

"His animal stories are marvels of sympathetic science and literary exactness."—New York World.

"Poet Laureate of the Animal World, Professor Roberts displays the keenest powers of observation closely interwoven with a fine imaginative discretion."—Boston Transcript.