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accompany the hounds, or was not allowed to go 

 with them, but the hounds, although they hunted 

 their quarry with all the zeal and fury natural to 

 them, refused to bite or hurt it in any way when 

 they got it. Their friendship with an otter had 

 had a psychological effect on their otter-hound 

 natures. 



