Page 16 - Beavers: Skilful Dam Constructors

the wood around the tree trunk, equally from each side.

It keeps doing this until the breaking point of the tree
looks like a sharpened pencil.
As the beaver gnaws the tree trunk, Karim wonders

how this small animal will carry the huge tree. At that very
moment, the tree falls into the water, solving the
problem of how it will be carried.

Then the other beaver comes and starts to gnaw a

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