The House in the Water

A Book of Animal Stories

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About this book

The House in the Water is a book of animal stories by Charles G. D. Roberts. A chapter called The Battle in the Pond opens at breakfast, where the Boy tells Jabe that the noise they heard last night was no windfall, and the woodsman says sarcastically that he knew all the time it was beaver.

An old bear crouches where she is, straining her eyes to make out the form of her little one, who is striving valiantly to claw his way up the perpendicular surface of smooth rock. Sonny, the discarded, the discredited, finds the days on a lonely backwoods farm hopeless, dark and interminable, but to the Kid they are days of wonder, every one. The Kid loves the queer black and white pigs, which he studies intently through the cracks in the boarding of their pen.

About the author

Charles G. D. Roberts

Charles G. D. Roberts was a Canadian poet and prose writer especially associated with fiction about wild animals. Some Animal Stories gathers tales centered on creatures including panthers, ravens, porcupines, skunks, and a she-bear, presenting instinct and survival through closely observed narrative scenes.