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CHAPTER XXIII
THE SETTING OF THE TRAPS
There's always some one setting traps
While honest folk are taking naps.
Little Joe Otter.
The trapper had found out the things he wanted to know. He had found out where the Otters left the water to climb up to the top of their slippery slide. He had found out where they were in the habit of making a short cut across from one part of the brook to another where it made a bend. He had found certain favorite places where they brought the fish they
