This page has been validated.
CHAPTER XXIX
THE YOUNG OTTER PAYS THE PRICE
If life and freedom be the cost,
What matter if a toe is lost?
Little Joe Otter.
Have you ever tried to make up your mind to have an aching tooth pulled? If you have, you remember what hard work it was and how you kept putting it off and putting it off and putting it off. It was the same way with the young Otter caught in a steel trap by one toe. His father, Little Joe Otter, had told him that there was only one way in which
