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CHAPTER XXI
A RACE FOR LIFE
When life's at stake 'tis no disgrace
To run from what you dare not face.
Little Joe Otter.
Little Joe Otter and his family had traveled many miles from the Laughing Brook on their way to that other brook where Little Joe was sure they would find better fishing. They had left a deep trail through the snow. It happened that this trail was found by an old trapper, who was tramping through the woods.
"Traveling Otter!" he ex-
