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assistance so long as he kept the hound, and asked 

 that it might be destroyed. This the hungry farmer, 

 with tears in his eyes, would not allow; " Nea," he. 

 said, " me an' Bellman has leeved tagither an' we'll 

 dee tagither," and, notwithstanding the protestations 

 of friends, he refused to part with his dog, and 

 continued to starve and starve, sharing his crusts 

 with his faithful canine companion until the old 

 hound died. The master was not long in following 

 it to the grave. 



Men such as the above kept the dogs on the 

 Borders ; so much per head was given for each fox 

 killed, the amount, which varied from sixpence to a 

 shilling each, no doubt going to pay for the refresh- 

 ment of the farmers and their servants when out on 

 such hunting expeditions, the whole of the hounds 

 and terriers kept in the district banding themselves 

 together on such occasions. The gipsies, too, were 

 a sporting lot then as they are now, and they had 

 their dogs too. Many of them, even as recently 

 as forty or fifty years ago, kept a couple or so of 

 otter hounds in addition to their terriers, and they 

 were keen at the sport. 



About twenty years since I was otter hunting in 

 the north ; an otter had been bolted, which we had lost 

 for a short time, and our hounds were making casts 

 to pick up the lost scent. On the high road close 



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