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Title: The hunting field with horse and hound in America, the British Isles and France
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Peer, Frank Sherman
Subjects: Hunting Fox hunting
Publisher: New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ingtheir slippery game and from which none of the animals hepreys upon need hope to escape. They are professionalpoachers by trade and artists in catching fish. Although a fishis shy, wary and quick, the otter can go it one better at everyplay, and generally wins. They wont mind my saying thatalthough they have not the craft and cunning of a fox or thespeed of the deer, still they are as artful and evasive as hisSatanic ^lajesty. They can give even the shifty hare pointsin dodging, while no ghost or phantom can match them in theart of appearing and disappearing, and appearing again whereleast expected. For keeping hounds and followers guessinguntil they dont know their own names, they have, amonganimals, no equal. Tis here: tis there: tis gone. As a family they are a roving band of gypsies. If one ishere to-day it is a sure sign he will be somewhere else to-mor-row. They travel long distances at night, and sleep in a drain,w^hich they enter under water and follow to a convenient rest-
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Otter Hunting 229 ing place above the water level. A favourite spot for them isa hoIlow^ willow-tree, and on one occasion the Essex Hunt hadthe pleasure of seeing one dive from the top of one into thestream below. When pursued they take to water. They canstay below the surface for six to eight minutes without comingup to breathe, and when they do come up it is only for an in-stant when they simply poke the end of their noses carefullyout, hardly producing a ripple. They take a lot of finding aswell as a lot of hunting. Without the hounds to follow thescent, as it rests above the water or floats down upon it, a Idll,even with spears, would be almost impossible. After houndshave bolted their otter and hunted him by swimming in thewater, this is called hunting his wash. As to their domestic relations the otter, like the domesticdog, is believed to hold to the doctrine of free love, with nospecial season for courting or bringing forth their young.Madam Otter, hke the masculine members of

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