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And old Grandaddy Beaver is so upset that he 's gone to bed and wo n't talk with anybody . '' Everybody in the village where Brownie Beaver lived was very much upset . Most people were angry , too . And no doubt it was natural that they should feel that way , because while they were taking their midday naps a man had come and paddled about their village in a boat . Brownie Beaver was the first to hear him and he quickly spread the alarm . There was a great scurrying as all the villagers stole out of their houses and swam away under water to hide in holes in the bank of the pond and in other places they knew . Toward night , when they all came back again , the man had gone .