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down it.And when they had reached the middle they were at the door of the house.
“Here we are,Mrs. Beaver,”said Mr. Beaver,“I’ve found them.Here are the Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve”-and they all went in.
The first thing Lucy noticed as she went in was a burring sound,and the first thing she saw was a kindlooking old she-beaver sitting in the corner with a thread in her mouth working busily at her sewing machine,and it was from it that the sound came.She stopped her work and got up as soon as the children came in.
“So you’ve come at last !”she said,holding out both her wrinkled old paws.“At last ! To think that ever I should live to see this day ! The potatoes are on boiling and the kettle’s singing and I daresay,Mr. Beaver,you’ll get us some fish.”
“That I will,”said Mr. Beaver,and he went out of the house (Peter went with him),and across the ice of the deep pool to where he had a little hole in the ice which he kept open every day with his hatchet.Th