Show otter once held sacred because he killed frogs the otter has a scheme of his own to fill his hours with happiness he doesn doean t care to walk on the ice lee instead he throws himself on it and slides he loves to slide down steep hills into the water the b banks a aks are often thirty or forty feet long and very slippery and none of the neighbors throws ashes on them the otter has a big place in his tery asserts lee eubanks in our dumb animals ancient persians held him sacred because he killed frogs which overran persia fhe rhe man who killed an otter had tu to go out and kill 10 frogs if he re fused his punishment was severe in deed the otter goes back to pre biblical days in old sanskrit he was called an udra mid european countries called him uder odder and finally otter the rare sea otter is born in the ocean born at sea in a bed of kelp an otter can swim a quarter of a mile under the ice he blows out air in a bubble directed against the ice when the air strikes the ice its freshness is restored and mr otter draws it into his lungs again though the otter is a good swimmer he acquires the art his parents must coax and coach him |