Show I nir HH J O ov OBy By Dr Thornton W Burgess s Who Cho doth loth the he law liw of oC safety 8 heed Vill not be l I bv by b greed reed Old Old atule The Tho young oung Otter who ho ha had left II a atoe toe behind l In a trap IraI was as so o hap hap- happy happy happy py to be b tree free again that ho he hardly gaso a e the tho loss of oC that toe a thought The cold water ater was as goo good l for tor the sore tool foot and tho ho young oung Ott Otter r being health healthy his toot foot healed heald rap rap- Idl In tact fact In lu two or three days da his foot Coot was ryas as practically well ell Buthe But the oung oung Otter Olter didn t forget bl his dl c experience Ho lie ne nee e would tal forget get It He lie had learned a son Ie-son that he would 1 remember dS as J Jlong long as he sired lived 11 ed All his life ho would be e suspicious of oC traps trap andon and andon andon on the watch atch for tor them Ne Neier or again would that young soung oung Otter be caught In a trap Of Ot COUI se the trapper found Cound that too In III his trap Such a disappointed disappointed pointed trapper as he was Then Ther non on t be ho a chance of oC catching that Otte again he I must hl e ben been careless In setting that t n pr It should l ha have e gig him hyt by the whole foot Coot and not just jut b ba a Ia toe Probably those other Ot Otters Ot- Ot Otters Otters I know kno all about It now no When hen he lie discovered l tho the new slippery slide ho knew that his traps at th the old slippery slide had been discovered He le set ct trap at the tool fool oot of oC the ne new slide elide but but he ho dl didn ln t have hale much hope ono o of I catching anyone any one In It II lie JIe II understood un- un un understood l perfectly that Little LIllie Joe Joo i Otter OLter and Mrs Ottel were ere wise In the ways wa s of oC trappers I I guess muttered the tho that my best chance chanc of oC getting retting one ono of oC those Otters will bo ho o to hid hide lude for a chance chanco to shoot one ot of them I II spend the d day dy y over oser hero tomorrow with lIh my So gun he ho spent pent all the ne next t day I hidden near the slippery slid witching watching with lIh his terrible gun But ho t have hale ba e a 11 chance to use ue It d Itlie lie didn tet t get et so much as a n glimpse of oC a sleek bro brown bron n head And the reason reabon was that Litti Little Joe Otter OUel and his Ills family were ere tar far away aVo ay do down don dothe n the brook they 1 hey hid had started stalled ted car Iv ear ear- earl early ly l the night before beCore They n er ere ereon on their way nay down tow to toward aid al l the DIg Big Rh er Little Joe and Mrs Otter Oller had talked the matter all over ovel It inn Isn t sate safe to stay here bero any longer declared Little Joe I I don t like to leave lease lell e the goo good l fishing for tor we 0 may ilia not find another nn another ther place whets It Is la so 0 easy to get plenty of oC fish But Dut that terrible two t 0 legged tuie crea- crea creature tUi ture e will III give gh e us no peace Thel Theio e eIs Is a trap now at the toot foot of ot our new slippery slide You You ate aie quite right my m dear replied Mrs Otter I I am WOI worried to death loath for tor fear In spite of oC all their watchfulness one ot of the chil- chil children children chil children dren will get caught in a n terrible trap and be killed I think the oon sooner r we e move along the Safety Is the tho most Important thing So once Wrote mOle Little Joe and Ills his family went trawling traveling There wasa was wasa wasa a crust on the snow now no noan and an l they I had a lot of ot fun tun sU sliding More More- Moreover 0 over oser er they didn't lea leave leae case e a trail aSI as asi had left leCt the th Laughing I when ft hen the I ItA F 1 f s r vl I So ire spent all the next day daden bid bid- bidden den near the Hie slippery slide Brook Drook In the soft toft snow now They The fol- fol followed 10 lowed ed th the big lg brook on its way to toward to- to toI toward toward I ward the tho Dig Big River Riser Now and then thell the they came to open places where the water ater was as R swift and hadn t frozen There Thero they thy topped stopped to fish Sometimes they swam warn tot tOI quite a distance under the Ice It as all fun tun exciting fun tun for Cor tho t O oung The Th next story tor A rish Disappears Disappears pears oo 00 |