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CHAPTER XV
LITTLE JOE AND MRS. JOE REACH A DECISION
To eager youth 'tis vain to preach;
Experience alone can teach.
Little Joe Otter.
Rough Brother North Wind and Jack Frost had been down from the Far North for some time now. The pond of Paddy the Beaver, the Smiling Pool, and the Laughing Brook, excepting where it ran swiftly, were covered with ice. The Green Meadows and the Green Forest and the Old Pasture were deep with snow. Only those who, like Johnny Chuck and
