the only person in his village that had ever had such a thing happen
to him.

After that he was ready to believe everything Jasper Jay told him. So
Jasper related some wonderful news. And it would hardly be fair for
anyone not present at the time to say that it wasn't perfectly true--
every word of it.

[Illustration: The Chain Caught on a Bush and Tripped Him]




XVI

LOOKING PLEASANT


After Jasper Jay left Brownie Beaver, on that day when Jasper told
Brownie that the photographer had made a flashlight picture of him,
Brownie could hardly wait for it to grow dark. He had made up his mind
that he would go back to that same tree, which was still not quite
gnawed through; and he hoped that he would succeed in having his
picture taken again. Like many other people, Brownie Beaver felt that
he could not have too much of a good thing.

There was another reason, too, for his going back to the tree. If the
light flared again and the click sounded in the bushes, Brownie
intended to go right into the thicket and get his picture before
anybody else could carry it away with him. (You can understand how