Read "The Well in the Wood" by Bert Leston Taylor online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
They found the Laziest Beaver at home -- just as Colonel, the Yellow Dog, / had promised -- lying in the sun in front of his tumble-down dwelling, / and fanning himself with lazy flaps of his broad tail. He nodded / pleasantly as Colonel and Buddie approached, but made no attempt to / rise for a more formal greeting.
"This is Buddie," said the Yellow Dog, presenting her.