Show ji 2 I 1 C I A n RICE CJ ron rois Un By I hornton W Hinges Hinge's Hill c s When life s at stal stake Blake e Us Ils no dig dl- grace graco To run un what yo yoi dare not no face Old Old Iother Mature Joe Joo Otter and hI family t had tra many mlle miles from the th Laughing Brook Drool on their way nay a to that other oUt r brook where shero here I 1 Itle Jo Joe wis IS sure they hey would Sid fid better fishing The They hid l left ft a deep It Ii hap hap- happened happened trail through through h the snow sno pond th th-it th this trail trait we a round found by an old trapper who IMS sas tramp tramp- In tog through the tho ho woods oo s Otter Oller he e as soon ns liS he saw aw the Ihen Then Hall lall ere Care Carefully ho he examined the lery sery fully full More II ore than one as as been along here he decided Whit Is Ismore Ismore more those Otters III aLa aia e hot liot l ot very i far ahead of me inc Th s IS la i sely Cl Y 11 esh The They're Thero re heading straIght for tor the tho pon pond Just b ond i the next net ridge Otter fur tur brings a high price these thee da daIs dass s It II I J can catch up with lIh them I may canI be beable beable bable able to get Bet a skin or two te t 0 I He looked around toi fot a stout club and as soon oon as he ha had found I one to suit him he hc hurr d along that trail He tie guese guessed thit those J Otters were ere not lIe f hoped that If It be 11 1 could set ret near enough before lie ho w was I as dis dig I he would be able ablo to OLiU un one onor i or t two 0 of thrim So h hi 1 hurried on as fast as he be could cO taking I the greatest care to mak 3 as little noise nole as possible Little Joe Mrs Otter Ottar and the tho I two oung oune Otic Otters had almost I reached the pon pond when hen Little Litti Joes Joe's I ears cars caught a sound mat c used I hint him to stop an and look 1001 back bul along alongI I their trail trait He lie saw sass man running Ho He recognized him hint manI In- In instantly In Instantly I as one of those thoe two t o creatures called men lIe Hie jie only enemIes LIttI Little Joe really We e must run for our lives ho he cried and I led the way ay brea the path the SlOW siow Then began 1 i i race for tor life Little LIUe Joe knew that It that man caught up Ith tI tIm m they would h base ha e no chanco for their lis 11 es Ito H U knew I all about that pon pond lust just ahead lie He knew that at al a ono one there here I ere ore springs and that when hen a lien all I Ithe the rest of the pond sIs wis IS Cred co I I sith Ice there usually was as open water above those hose It I they could reach open water waier they be bo safe I Such a race as that liAt was Though the Otters did their best they could not tras tra tra el e ci as fast through the snow as th nan lie He on them with e cry step How V thankful Little Jo and Irs I Otter were ere ss thit th ho he had ro 10 ter- ter ter terrible gun Had he lie had A terrible gun they would hase hae ha e had I chance chanco at all Dut But eve i a terrible gun he h would wo ld surely I t JJ I 3 o E 5 s to Ho lIo cl gained l I on with nth esery ery step Hel kill 1111 them all nil unless they could reach that open water ater Through the trees tree th they y saw the black smooth Ice of that pon pond just ahead of them They bound bound- bounded bounded ed and plunged ahead with all their tren strength th Little Joe as w as ahead to break bia the way ay through the snow Then im una lIsa tho t O oung Otters and Mrs Otter Olter was last That I apper was as almost striking distance as she sprang onto the th Ice Out ot there the Otters could tm el faster than the tra trapper 1 They hey would make se cial bounds for for ard and then throw on out their stomachs and slide It was a sur sUr- sUr how v fat fast they the thena er na Os 0 er that Ice But tho the trapper tupper couldn't run fast on tho the Ice It 5 as too slipper Ho Ito dl did his hits best hut but ho he fell farther and farther behind Finally he thre v iV his club at Mis Ills Otter Oller It just m en cd her herA herA herA A minute liter lster ono one after afler Little LIllie Joe and his reared In the open water They had won on son their race for tor life Copi COP right 1924 by T W IV Bur Bur Dur- Durgess Burgess gess The next story TIm Tha Clo Cloer er erTi Tt Ti |