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 party that Little Joe and Mrs. Otter went without breakfast that the two young Otters might eat.

"My dear," said Little Joe, "this is the poorest fishing I have ever known. So much of the Laughing Brook is frozen over that only a few places are left in which we can fish. And we have already caught most of the fish in those places. We have got to do something about it."

"I've been thinking that very thing," replied Mrs. Otter. "Shall we take the youngsters down to the Big River?"

"I know of another brook, a bigger brook than this, which has deep spring holes in it, and many places where the water is swift and