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CHAPTER XXVII
A SUDDENLY LOST APPETITE
By pain and fright is wisdom bought,
And thus respect for elders taught.
Little Joe Otter.
Little Joe Otter's foolish young son, who had found a dead fish at the back of a little pen of sticks on the edge of the water, remembered the warning to leave dead fish alone. But he was hungry, and it wouldn't take but a second to get that fish.
"Father and mother were just trying to scare us," he repeated to himself. "I guess they don't realize that I am big enough to
