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 turned to see what new danger threatened their darling.

As for the latter, he was too badly frightened to move. He growled feebly in a very frightened way as Farmer Brown's boy picked him up.

"You poor little thing," said Farmer Brown's boy gently. "I wouldn't hurt you for the world."

But the little Otter couldn't understand a word and just shivered with fear. At first Farmer Brown's boy thought that he would take the little fellow home for a pet. Then he looked down into the little pool straight into the eyes of Mrs. Joe, and he saw there such a look of anxious love and longing that he marched straight