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 about. Those traps look perfectly harmless to me. I'm not afraid of them. I guess if I use my eyes and my nose I can find them without getting into one of them. I wonder where all the fish have gone to. My, I'm hungry! I believe I'll go farther up the brook. There is some swift, open water up there and it hasn't been fished much."

So the young Otter swam to the upper end of the open water where he then was, climbed out on the ice and traveled over this until he came to another stretch of open water. He swam along close to the bank on one side and presently came to a sort of little pen of sticks. He didn't remember