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CHAPTER XXXII
THE LIVING HEAP OF SNOW
Don't think, but make quite sure you know
A thing is thus or mayhap so.
Little Joe Otter.
Of all the puzzled people in all the Great World none was more puzzled than was the young Otter whose big fish had disappeared. He had certainly killed that fish. He had even taken two big bites out of the choicest part of it. So he knew that the fish couldn't have flopped off the ice into the water while he was away. He had been gone only a few minutes,
