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morning after morning in search of food ; its foot- 

 prints were visible leading to and from the sandhills, 

 whilst here and there broken fragments and well- 

 cleaned carapaces of the Spider Crab (Hyas coarctatus) 

 were to be found. These crabs no doubt offered the 

 animal a pleasing change diet from the Larks and 

 Pipits it must have been seeking before the dawn, 

 and while they were yet napping in the tussocks of 

 maram -grass. 



One morning in August 1900 I was quietly 

 drifting downstream on Breydon, when I noticed 

 some small animal suddenly plunge in from the 

 walls and commence swimming bravely into the 

 broad stream of the u channel," undoubtedly with 

 the intention of seeing what he could do amongst 

 a number of gulls gathered on the five-stake flat. 

 Although not intending to get too close upon him, 

 my boat drifted across his track, when the animal 

 a Weasel showed fight, and endeavoured to climb 

 into my punt, a proceeding I objected to, and I was 

 obliged to gently tap him on the head with the 

 blade of my oar. He sank quite a yard, squirming 

 and protesting, but on rising to the surface very 

 wisely turned shorewards, and, vigorously paddling, 

 soon reached the bank, disappearing in the flintstone- 



