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 wouldn't believe he had caught it any more than his sister believed it.

Now hardly had that young Otter disappeared when what he had taken for a little heap of snow disappeared too. It disappeared without a sound. You see, it was alive. It really wasn't a heap of snow at all. If the young Otter had seen it go, he might possibly have guessed what had become of his big fish. But he didn't see it go, and the next time he visited that place he didn't even notice that that little white heap was no longer there.