. St. Nicholas [serial]. What upon airth are ye doin thar? he in-quired, his eyes twinkling under their bushy brows. We are watching for our otter, said Will. Our otter, muttered the old fellow, Wrotter!He, he, he, he 1 Mebbe it is your otter ; but you11 never set them ere eyes onto your otter WE SHOT ON EACH SIDE OF HIM. One morning, the old trapper came along again. This time he had five minks. He stopped hisskiff in the middle of the stream, and looked at usso queerly that we could not keep from smiling. Why not? said I,rather taken aback. Kase I kotch thatanimal the very nextnight a
. St. Nicholas [serial]. What upon airth are ye doin thar? he in-quired, his eyes twinkling under their bushy brows. We are watching for our otter, said Will. Our otter, muttered the old fellow, Wrotter!He, he, he, he 1 Mebbe it is your otter ; but you11 never set them ere eyes onto your otter WE SHOT ON EACH SIDE OF HIM. One morning, the old trapper came along again. This time he had five minks. He stopped hisskiff in the middle of the stream, and looked at usso queerly that we could not keep from smiling. Why not? said I,rather taken aback. Kase I kotch thatanimal the very nextnight arter ye showedme the slide. He, he,he ! Will and I looked ateach other. We felt badly put did not care to talk with the oldman any more. He looked to us a gooddeal like a thief. He laughed all tohimself in a quiet, satisfied way as he pad-dled on down the stream. That pelt war woth six dollars,he muttered, an I was boun to hevit, ye see. We took down our blind of cedar-boughs, drew up our little anchor, andpaddled away, feeling too disappointedto talk much. But, after all, the old trapper no doubtneeded the otters skin much more than we did,and so it all turned out right. One thing was sure : we had made good progresswith our Greek and Latin lessons, meanwhile. H4 CHRISTMAS AT NUMBER O
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