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Tharald’s Otter,[1]
Between Sea and Sky,[17]
Mikkel,[41]
The Famine among the Gnomes,[71]
How Bernt Went Whaling,[79]
The Cooper and the Wolves,[91]
Magnie’s Dangerous Ride,[102]
Thorwald and the Star-Children,[128]
Big Hans and Little Hans,[147]
A New Winter Sport,[165]
The Skerry of Shrieks,[182]
Fiddle-John’s Family,[211]


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Between sea and sky[Frontispiece]
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The baron sprang up with an exclamation of fright[76]
Norwegian skee-runners[178]
In Battery Park[260]

[THARALD’S OTTER.]

Tharald and his brother Anders were bathing one day in the lake. The water was deliciously warm, and the two boys lay quietly floating on their backs, paddling gently with their hands. All of a sudden Tharald gave a scream. A big trout leaped into the air, and almost in the same instant a black, shiny head rose out of the water right between his knees. The trout, in its descent, gave him a slap of its slimy tail across his face. The black head stared out at him, for a moment, with an air of surprise, then dived noiselessly into the deep.

Anders hurried to shore as rapidly as arms and legs would propel him.