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out his brains against branches. In ten seconds 

 there was nobody left on the ground but Otter 

 and poor little white-striped Skunk. The collision 

 had sent him rolling over and over down to the 

 ice bottom of the stream. He got up, shook 

 himself, used some very bad animal language, 

 and slunk away to his family, to tell them of the 

 trick Carcajou and Mink had played him. 



&quot; That Glutton was afraid I d win the Pheas 

 ant/ he confided to Mrs. Sikak; &quot;but I broke 

 up the party, anyway.&quot; 



Otter was wandering about disconsolately 

 through the woods, declaiming to the trees that 

 his Slide was ruined for all time to come, and 

 he really wished the Trap had ended his days. 





