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CHAPTER XXXI
A FISH DISAPPEARS
Before you boast be sure you know
That you have got the fish to show.
Little Joe Otter.
At the place where the big brook, down which Little Joe Otter and his family had traveled, enters the Big River, the latter never freezes over. Little Joe Otter knew this. You see, he had been there before more than once. He knew that there was good fishing in the Big River, and that if no trapper discovered them they would not be disturbed. No men lived near that part of
