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Little Joe Otter
He never would forget it. He had learned a lesson that he would remember as long as he lived. All his life he would be suspicious of traps and on the watch for them. Never again would that young Otter be caught in a trap.
Of course, the trapper found that toe in his trap. Such a disappointed trapper as he was! "There won't be a chance of catching that Otter again," said he. "I must have been careless in setting that trap. It should have caught him by the whole foot and not just by a toe. Probably those other Otters know all about it now."
When he discovered the new slippery slide he knew that his
