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CHAPTER VI

THE FIRST SWIMMING LESSON

You'll never learn to float on sand,
Nor swim by staying on the land.

Little Joe Otter.

One morning Peter Rabbit was a little late in getting over to the home of Little Joe Otter. When he got there, there was not a sign of the two brown Otter children at the doorway of their home between the roots of the big tree. "It must be," thought Peter, "that they have gone off hunting. I wonder if I can find them if I look for them."