THE LAZY BEAVER
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A beaver that couldn't conform to the busy beaver slogan is rather a cute character. Nonconformists always are appealing -- at least to the read-alouds. But like all of us, this poor fellow gets rather beaten down on his no-work policy. His fellow beavers get after him, he comes to some grief, he rescues the colony and gets to be a regular busy beaver in the lodge after all.