Story Summary

It seemed that he would never get there, but at last Lefty saw his home which looked different and the stream looked different too. Then he knew what had happened, the dam had been torn out. The stream was filled with rocks and his house was sitting high up on the island.

His mother saw him coming first, then the whole family rushed to meet him. They crowded about him asking all at once what happened with his paw. He cried as he told them how he was alone the whole night caught in a trap but that the next morning a kind man and a boy had freed him. He said he would never be so afraid of men again.