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CHAPTER XI

SAMMY JAY CALLS FARMER BROWN'S BOY

In danger there is good excuse
For putting any tongue to use.

Little Joe Otter.

The foolish little Otter, who hadn't minded his father and mother but had remained behind on the bank of the little pool in the Laughing Brook, didn't have time to even squeal before Old Man Coyote had him. Old Man Coyote didn't kill him at once, as he might have done with one crunch of his great jaws. He wanted to play with him a little first.