"Why didn't Jimmy cut off his tail?" Brownie asked eagerly.

"There!" said Mr. Crow. "You've done just as I told you not to. So I
shall not tell you the rest until next Saturday.... You see, you have
a few things to learn about taking a newspaper." And 'he would give
Brownie no more news that day. To be sure, he was willing to talk--but
only about things that had happened where Brownie Beaver lived.




VIII

MR. CROW IS UPSET


Brownie Beaver couldn't help feeling that Mr. Crow had not treated him
very well, because Mr. Crow hadn't told him all the news about Frisky
Squirrel's tail. He thought that maybe there were things about a
newspaper that even Mr. Crow didn't know.

Another week had passed. Brownie knew that it had, because since Mr.
Crow's last call he had cut a notch in a stick each day. And there
were now seven of them.

Late Saturday afternoon Mr. Crow came back again. He lighted on top of
Brownie's house and called "Paper!" down the chimney, just as he had a
week before.

Brownie Beaver came swimming up once more.