[The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wouldbegoods CHAPTER 7 34/34
Oh, yes, I'll kiss you--but it's bed and it's two hundred lines to-morrow, and the line is--"Beware of Being Beavers and Burning Bridges.
Dread Dams." It will be a capital exercise in capital B's and D's.' We knew by that that, though annoyed, he was not furious; we went to bed. I got jolly sick of capital B's and D's before sunset on the morrow. That night, just as the others were falling asleep, Oswald said-- 'I say.' 'Well,' retorted his brother. 'There is one thing about it,' Oswald went on, 'it does show it was a rattling good dam anyhow.' And filled with this agreeable thought, the weary beavers (or explorers, Polar or otherwise) fell asleep..
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